THE LAMPLIGHTER |
By Robert Louis Stevenson From A Child's Garden of Verses |
My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky. It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at teatime and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street. Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea, And my Papa's a banker and as rich as he can be; But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do, O Leerie,I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you. For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door, And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more; And oh! before you hurry by with ladder and with light; O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night! |