Robin Hood's Good-Night
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
Good-night, good-night, Heart's Dearest. The Hunter holds the sky.
There wakes no soul in Sherwood save Little John and I.
'Twixt thee and me the grasses grow thick and soft and green,
And falls a drift of hawthorn above thee for a screen —
'Twixt thee and me. Heart's Dearest, the grass is green.
Shall I not soon. Heart's Dearest, good-morrow to thee say,
And kiss thy lips of kisses forlorn for many a day?
Shall I bid thee good-morrow, good-night to Little John,
And lay me down beside thee to slumber sweetly on —
Nor dream of lonely Sherwood, nor Little John?
Shall we go seek. Heart's Dearest, that land of afternoon,
Where lovers to their lasses pipe out a sleepy tune?
Where care may never enter, and love grow never cold —
Where Allan walks, a-harping a tune we knew of old?
Shall we not journey thither, O heart of gold?
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