Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.
5. Young Night Thought
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When my mama puts out the light,
I see the people marching by,
As plain as day, before my eye.
All carrying different kinds of things,
And marching in so grand a way,
You never saw the like by day.
At the great circus on the green;
For every kind of beast and man
Is marching in that caravan.
But still the faster on they go,
And still beside them close I keep
Until we reach the town of Sleep.