Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson

[conuly]

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

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Comments

[acelightning73]

Boys and girls come out to play,
The moon doth shine as bright as day,
Leave your supper and leave your beds,
And you'll all be grounded for the next five years.

[conuly]

Huh. I wonder how people talked about "being grounded" before the invention of air planes - and more precisely, the air force.

[acelightning73]

"YOu're not allowed out of the house until sunrise, you wastrel, you!"