Where do you go when you go to sleep, <br />Little Boy! Little Boy! where? <br />'Way--'way in where's Little Bo-Peep, <br />And Little Boy Blue, and the Cows and Sheep <br />A-wandering 'way in there;--in there-- <br />A-wandering 'way in there! <br /> <br />And what do you see when lost in dreams, <br />Little Boy, 'way in there? <br />Firefly-glimmers and glowworm-gleams, <br />And silvery, low, slow-sliding streams, <br />And mermaids, smiling out--'way in where <br />They're a-hiding--'way in there! <br /> <br />Where do you go when the Fairies call, <br />Little Boy! Little Boy! where? <br />Wade through the clews of the grasses tall, <br />Hearing the weir and the waterfall <br />And the Wee Folk--'way in there--in there-- <br />And the Kelpies--'way in there! <br /> <br />And what do you do when you wake at dawn, <br />Little Boy! Little Boy! what? <br />Hug my Mommy and kiss her on <br />Her smiling eyelids, sweet and wan, <br />And tell her everything I've forgot <br />About, a-wandering 'way in there-- <br />Through the blind-world 'way in there!<br /><br />James Whitcomb Riley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/through-sleepy-land/
