| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry. 1919. |
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| Amelia Josephine Burr. 1878– |
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| 79. Lie-Awake Song |
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| GOD has a house three streets away, | |
| And every Sunday, rain or shine, | |
| My nurse goes there her prayers to say. | |
| She's told me of the candles fine | |
| That, burning all night long, they keep | 5 |
| Because God never goes to sleep. | |
| Then there's a steeple full of bells, | |
| All through the dark the time it tells. | |
| I like to hear it in the night | |
| And think about those candles bright. | 10 |
| I wonder if God stays awake | |
| For kindness, like the Furnace-man | |
| Who comes before it's day, to make | |
| Our house as pleasant as he can... | |
| I like to watch the sky grow blue, | 15 |
| And think perhaps, the whole world through, | |
| No one's awake but just us three— | |
| God, and the Furnace-man, and me. | |
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