Source: Project Gutenberg #136
Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/136
Public domain basis: Public-domain English poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885).
Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition a-childs-garden-of-verses at bytes 21141-21931; checksum 71864b2ca7af5e18d8939e66de0e5b710b6026c040f6ac92ee35276d7d336938.


# The Lamplighter

The Lamplighter

  My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky.
  It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
  For every night at teatime and before you take your seat,
  With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

  Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea,
  And my papa's a banker and as rich as he can be;
  But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do,
  O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you!

  For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door,
  And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;
  And oh! before you hurry by with ladder and with light;
  O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night!


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