Child Songs of Cheer

<h2><SPAN name="THE_SANDMAN" id="THE_SANDMAN"></SPAN>THE SANDMAN</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The Sandman! hark, I hear him!<br/></span> <span class="i2">He's coming up the stair,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And everybody near him<br/></span> <span class="i2">Is nodding, I declare!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">He's peeping in the door now,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And first of all he spies,<br/></span> <span class="i0">As he has done before now,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The little children's eyes!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Then quickly does he throw it,<br/></span> <span class="i2">His golden sleepy-sand,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And all, before they know it,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Are off for sleepy-land!<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />