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James Whitcomb Riley - Dream-March
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"Wasn`t it a funny dream!--perfectly bewild`rin`!--
    Last night, and night before, and night before that,
  Seemed like I saw the march o` regiments o` children,
    Marching to the robin`s fife and cricket`s rat-ta-tat!
  Lily-banners overhead, with the dew upon `em,
    On flashed the little army, as with sword and flame;
  Like the buzz o` bumble-wings, with the honey on `em,
    Came an eerie, cheery chant, chiming as it came:--


  _Where go the children? Travelling! Travelling_!
    _Where go the children, travelling ahead_?
  _Some go to kindergarten; some go to day-school_;
    _Some go to night-school; and some go to bed_!


  Smooth roads or rough roads, warm or winter weather,
    On go the children, tow-head and brown,
  Brave boys and brave girls, rank and file together,
    Marching out of Morning-Land, over dale and down:


  Some go a-gypsying out in country places--
    Out through the orchards, with blossoms on the boughs
  Wild, sweet, and pink and white as their own glad faces;
    And some go, at evening, calling home the cows.


  _Where go the children? Travelling! Travelling_!
    _Where go the children, travelling ahead_?
  _Some go to foreign wars, and camps by the firelight_--
    _Some go to glory so; and some go to bed_!


  Some go through grassy lanes leading to the city--
    Thinner grow the green trees and thicker grows the dust;
  Ever, though, to little people any path is pretty
    So it leads to newer lands, as they know it must.
  Some go to singing less; some go to list`ning;
    Some go to thinking over ever-nobler themes;
  Some go anhungered, but ever bravely whistling,
    Turning never home again only in their dreams.

  _Where go the children? Travelling! Travelling_!
    _Where go the children, travelling ahead_?
  _Some go to conquer things; some go to try them_;
    _Some go to dream them; and some go to bed_!
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