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Good Night

When the bright lamp is carried in, The sunless hours again begin; O’er all without, in field and lane, The haunted night returns again.

Now we behold the embers flee About the firelit hearth; and see Our faces painted as we pass, Like pictures, on the window-glass.

Must we to bed indeed?

Well then,

  • Let us arise and go like men,
  • And face with an undaunted tread
  • The long black passage up to bed.

Farewell, O brother, sister, sire!

O pleasant party round the fire!

  • The songs you sing,
  • the tales you tell,

Till far tomorrow, fare ye well!

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