Nurse's Song

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd every thing else is still

Then come home my children the sun is gone downAnd the dews of night ariseCome come leave off play, and let us awayTill the morning appears in the skies

No no let us play, for it is yet dayAnd we cannot go to sleepBesides in the sky, the little birds flyAnd the hills are all coverd with sheep

Well well go & play till the light fades awayAnd then go home to bedThe little ones leaped & shouted & laugh'dAnd all the hills ecchoed