At the Bars of Memory and Other Poems/Little Blue Eyes

by Andrew Francis Lockhart

LITTLE BLUE EYES

Little blue eyes blinking at me
So sleepily, so sleepily;
You are tir'd, I know, you want to sail
Away up where the moon-beams pale;
Little blue eyes blinking at me.

Little blue eyes blinking at me
So sleepily, so sleepily;
Sandman must have been 'round this way,
And caught my little one at play;
Little blue eyes blinking at me.

Little blue eyes are closed in sleep,
Silent and deep, silent and deep,
And 'way up there in pearl-scarr'd skies,
Two little stars like baby's eyes
Are winking and blinking at me!