My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky. <br />It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; <br />For every night at teatime and before you take your seat, <br />With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street. <br /> <br />Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea, <br />And my papa's a banker and as rich as he can be; <br />But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do, <br />O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you! <br /> <br />For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door, <br />And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more; <br />And oh! before you hurry by with ladder and with light; <br />O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night!<br /><br />Robert Louis Stevenson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lamplighter/
