• I Thought it was the little bed
      I slept in long ago;
    A straight white curtain at the head,
      And two smooth knobs below.

    I thought I saw the nursery fire,
      And in a chair well-known
    My mother sat, and did not tire
      With reading all alone.

    If I should make the slightest sound
      To show that I ’m awake,
    She ’...