A Child's Goodnight Song

Goodnight birds, goodnight my singers,Silence, all skylarks and thrushes!Songs are sweeter for the hushes.Goodnight bees and blossom-ringers!

Goodnight—stream,—I hear you plashing!In the moonlight running riot,Making all the dark more quiet,—Stars unto your stars are flashing,Goodnight, stream, I hear you plashing!

Goodnight grasses, goodnight clover!Soon the dawn-wind shall awake you;Let its swinging cradle take you,All the sky's a spangled cover!

Goodnight, mother,—goodnight, sweet one;By my bed, bend now above me,Eyes but two more stars that love me,—Hurry day! Night, be a fleet one!—Goodnight, mother,—goodnight, sweet one.