THE MOON AND I.(A Midnight Dialogue.)
Scene: A Nursery at night; a wakeful baby sitting up in its crib; the full moon shining in at the window.
BABY BEE AND THE MOON.
BABY BEE AND THE MOON.
BABY BEE AND THE MOON.
The Moon said to me:“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,Why aren’t you asleep in your bed?When I am a-lightYou know it is night;So down with your bad little head!”I said to the Moon,With a coo and a croon:“O, beautiful Moon up so high!Don’t tarry afar—Let’s see what you are!Come down from your perch in the sky!”The Moon said to me:“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,When I was an infant like you,I put out my lightAt eight every nightTo let people know I wasnew.”I said to the Moon,With a coo and a croon:“Dear Moon, I’ve no doubt you are right;I freely admitThe wisdom and witOf one so exceedingly bright.”The Moon said to me:“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,Thenwhydon’t you shut up your eyesAnd sleep as you ought,And as you’ve been taught?What folly to act otherwise!”I said to the Moon,With a coo and a croon:“Pray how can I sleep when in truth,O, Moon, though I try,Ican’tshut an eye!O, Moon, I am cutting a tooth!”The Moon said to me:“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,I judged you a little too soon.You poor little dear!I wish you were hereWhere we never cut teeth,” said the Moon.
The Moon said to me:“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,Why aren’t you asleep in your bed?When I am a-lightYou know it is night;So down with your bad little head!”I said to the Moon,With a coo and a croon:“O, beautiful Moon up so high!Don’t tarry afar—Let’s see what you are!Come down from your perch in the sky!”The Moon said to me:“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,When I was an infant like you,I put out my lightAt eight every nightTo let people know I wasnew.”I said to the Moon,With a coo and a croon:“Dear Moon, I’ve no doubt you are right;I freely admitThe wisdom and witOf one so exceedingly bright.”The Moon said to me:“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,Thenwhydon’t you shut up your eyesAnd sleep as you ought,And as you’ve been taught?What folly to act otherwise!”I said to the Moon,With a coo and a croon:“Pray how can I sleep when in truth,O, Moon, though I try,Ican’tshut an eye!O, Moon, I am cutting a tooth!”The Moon said to me:“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,I judged you a little too soon.You poor little dear!I wish you were hereWhere we never cut teeth,” said the Moon.
The Moon said to me:“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,Why aren’t you asleep in your bed?When I am a-lightYou know it is night;So down with your bad little head!”
The Moon said to me:
“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,
Why aren’t you asleep in your bed?
When I am a-light
You know it is night;
So down with your bad little head!”
I said to the Moon,With a coo and a croon:“O, beautiful Moon up so high!Don’t tarry afar—Let’s see what you are!Come down from your perch in the sky!”
I said to the Moon,
With a coo and a croon:
“O, beautiful Moon up so high!
Don’t tarry afar—
Let’s see what you are!
Come down from your perch in the sky!”
The Moon said to me:“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,When I was an infant like you,I put out my lightAt eight every nightTo let people know I wasnew.”
The Moon said to me:
“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,
When I was an infant like you,
I put out my light
At eight every night
To let people know I wasnew.”
I said to the Moon,With a coo and a croon:“Dear Moon, I’ve no doubt you are right;I freely admitThe wisdom and witOf one so exceedingly bright.”
I said to the Moon,
With a coo and a croon:
“Dear Moon, I’ve no doubt you are right;
I freely admit
The wisdom and wit
Of one so exceedingly bright.”
The Moon said to me:“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,Thenwhydon’t you shut up your eyesAnd sleep as you ought,And as you’ve been taught?What folly to act otherwise!”
The Moon said to me:
“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,
Thenwhydon’t you shut up your eyes
And sleep as you ought,
And as you’ve been taught?
What folly to act otherwise!”
I said to the Moon,With a coo and a croon:“Pray how can I sleep when in truth,O, Moon, though I try,Ican’tshut an eye!O, Moon, I am cutting a tooth!”
I said to the Moon,
With a coo and a croon:
“Pray how can I sleep when in truth,
O, Moon, though I try,
Ican’tshut an eye!
O, Moon, I am cutting a tooth!”
The Moon said to me:“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,I judged you a little too soon.You poor little dear!I wish you were hereWhere we never cut teeth,” said the Moon.
The Moon said to me:
“Baby Bee, Baby Bee,
I judged you a little too soon.
You poor little dear!
I wish you were here
Where we never cut teeth,” said the Moon.
Pax Prescott.