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THE CHILDREN’S HOUR
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Between the dark and the daylight,When the night is beginning to lower
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Comes a pause in the days occupations, That is known as the Children’s Hour
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I hear in the chamber above me, The patter of little feet
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The sound of a door that is being opened
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Voices sweet and soft
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From my study I see in the lamp light,
Descending from the broad hall stair,
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Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair.
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A whisper, and then silence:
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Yet I know by their merry eyes
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They are plotting and planning together
To take me by surprise
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A sudden rush from the stair way
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A sudden raid from the hall
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Three doors left unguardedThey enter my castle wall
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They climb up my turret, O’er the arms of my chair;
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if I try to escape, they surround me,
They seem to be everywhere.
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They almost devour me with kisses
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Their arms about me entwine
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Till I think of the bishop of Bingen
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In his mouse-tower on the Rhine
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Do you think, O blue eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall.
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Such an old mustaches I am , is not a match for you at all!
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I have you fast in my fortress,And I will not let you depart,
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But put you
down into the dungeo
n, in the
round tower of my heart
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And there I will keep you forever,Yes forever and a day,
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Till the walls shall crumble to ruin , And molder in dust away!
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THE CHILDRENS HOUR