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Title: New Bed-Time Stories

Author: Louise Chandler Moulton


Release date: October 3, 2019 [eBook #60418]
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Language: English

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Day after day Johnny watched.—Page 15.

New
Bed-Time Stories.

BY
LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON,

AUTHOR OF “BED-TIME STORIES,” “MORE BED-TIME STORIES,”
“SOME WOMEN’S HEARTS,” AND “POEMS.”

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY,
1907

Copyright, 1880,
By Louise Chandler Moulton.

Alfred Mudge & Son, Inc., Printers,
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

TO MISTRESS BROWN-EYES.

At Christmas-tide, by Christmas fire,
 You’ll read these tales of mine;—
 I see, above my story-book,
 Your happy brown eyes shine.
Dear eyes, that front the future time
 So fearlessly to-day,
 Oh, may from them some kindly Fate
 Keep future tears away,
And give you all your heart desires,
 My little English maid,
 For whom, in this far-distant land,
 My loving prayers are said!
I pray for Peace, since Peace is good,
 For Love, since Love is best:
 If prayers bring blessings, Brown-eyed Girl,
 How much you will be blest!

L. C. M.

August, 1880.