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I know a secret that the night imparts
When bedtime ends day's honors and disgraces
And masquerades all stormy little hearts
With such deceptively angelic faces!
When bedtime ends day's honors and disgraces
And masquerades all stormy little hearts
With such deceptively angelic faces!
You shan't forget your green and golden youth,
Lying some day so dim and far behind you:
So, mingling simple fancy, simple truth,
Here are these little fables, to remind you.
Lying some day so dim and far behind you:
So, mingling simple fancy, simple truth,
Here are these little fables, to remind you.
You won't forget. All in all joy and pain
Life offers, dear my urchins, when you're older,
How Daddy'd love to carry once again
You, and all your world, upon his shoulder!
Life offers, dear my urchins, when you're older,
How Daddy'd love to carry once again
You, and all your world, upon his shoulder!
