POEM: THE NIGHT WILL NEVER STAY

painting by Phoebe Moore

THE NIGHT WILL NEVER STAY

by Eleanor Farjeon

The night will never stay,

the night will still go by,

though with a million stars

you pin it to the sky;

though you bind it with the

       blowing wind

and buckle it with the moon,

the night will slip away

like a sorrow or a tune.

a poem by Eleanor Farjeon

Copyright © 1951, from Poems For Children, by Eleanor Farjeon

Published by J. B. Lippincott Company

taken from Language And How To Use It by Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois 

Copyright © 1969, 1973 by by Scott, Foresman and Company

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