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DO all your sleeping at night, / For then niddy-noddy is right; / But awake you must keep, / And it won't do to sleep, / In the middle of broad daylight.
The sun at the end of the day / Takes his mighty great candle away; / A curtain on high / Is drawn over the sky, / And the stars peep thro' if they may.
There's the curtain of night over all, / There's our own window-curtain so small, / And least in their size, / Over Emily's eyes / Her fringed little eyelids will fall.
She kneels at the side of her bed, / And softly her prayers are said; / Now, a kiss, my Dear; / Come, Angels, near, / And keep watch round the little one's bed.