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First Line: Running barefoot all the day
Last Line: Bayu-bayusbkf-bayu.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sologub, Fedor (fyodor)


RUNNING barefoot all the day,
Time for him to go to bed.
We must wash the dust away,
While he droops his little head.
I will sing, and all for you,
Bayu-bayusbkf-bayu.

Who is tapping at the door?
I can guess. It's only Sleep.
Hair of flax and hand of wax,
Not the little chimney-sweep.
Softly now I sing for you,
Bayusbkf-bayu.

Where've you been, Sleep? Over hill.
What to see? The Moon was bright.
All alone? My sister too.
Brought her with you? Not to-night.
Gently now I sing to you,
Bayusbkf-bayu.

Drowsy Moon is weak and pale,
Far above us in the sky.
Someone at the window-sill
Murmurs, murmurs, "Here am I."
Very low I sing to you,
Bayusbkf-bayu.

Someone murmurs at the sill,
Like the rustling of a bough,
"I am very faint and ill.
Help me, brother, help me now."
Lower yet I sing to you,
Bayusbkf-bayu.

"I've been mowing all the day,
I am tired, I am ill."
Flits a shade across the pane,
Hides below the window-sill.
But I sing, and all for you,
Bayu-bayusbkf-bayu.





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