After R. L. Stevenson

Bed During Exams

I USED to go to bed at night,
And only worked when day was light.
But now ’tis quite the other way,
I never get to bed till day.

I look up from my work and see
The morning light shine in on me,
And listen to the warning knell—
The tinkle of the rising bell.

And does there not seem cause to weep,
When I should like so much to sleep,
I have to sing this mournful lay,
I cannot get to bed till day?

Clara Warren Vail.