Child Songs of Cheer

<h2><SPAN name="SLEEPY_TIME" id="SLEEPY_TIME"></SPAN>SLEEPY TIME</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Hey, baby! Ho, baby! here upon my knee,<br/></span> <span class="i0">See the firelight flicker over you and me!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">See the tiny people basking in the glow,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Peering through the ruddy little coals, and so<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">How they dance and scamper! Merry fairy folk!<br/></span> <span class="i0">Little sparks for spangles, little wings of smoke!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Come baby, come baby, nestle in my arms;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Hear the purring flames now sing their sleepy charms.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">All the firelight fairies, all the drowsy elves,<br/></span> <span class="i0">In the downy ashes cover up themselves.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And I fold the little blanket over you;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Bye baby, my baby, let us slumber too.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />