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Where do you go when you go to sleep, / Little Boy! Little Boy! where? / 'Way -- 'way in where's Little Bo-Peep, / And Little Boy Blue, and the Cows and Sheep / A-wandering 'way in there; -- in there -- / A-wandering 'way in there!
And what do you see when lost in dreams, / Little Boy, 'way in there?
Firefly-glimmers and glowworm-gleams, / And silvery, low, slow-sliding streams, / And mermaids, smiling out -- 'way in where / They're a-hiding -- 'way in there!
Where do you go when the Fairies call, / Little Boy! Little Boy! where?
Wade through the clews of the grasses tall, / Hearing the weir and the waterfall / And the Wee Folk -- 'way in there -- in there -- / And the Kelpies -- 'way in there!
And what do you do when you wake at dawn, / Little Boy! Little Boy! what?
Hug my Mommy and kiss her on / Her smiling eyelids, sweet and wan, / And tell her everything I've forgot / About, a-wandering 'way in there -- / Through the blind-world 'way in there!