WATCHMAN .

Past twelve o'clock — past twelve.

Good night, good night, my dearest —
How fast the moments fly!
'T is time to part, thou hearest
That hateful watchman's cry.

WATCHMAN .

Past one o'clock — past one.

Yet stay a moment longer —
Alas! why is it so,
The wish to stay grows stronger,
The more 't is time to go?

WATCHMAN .

Past two o'clock — past two.

Now wrap thy cloak about thee —
The hours must sure go wrong,
For when they're past without thee,
They're, oh, ten times as long.

WATCHMAN .

Past three o'clock — past three.

Again that dreadful warning!
Had ever time such flight?
And see the sky, 't is morning —
So now, indeed , good night.

WATCHMAN .

Past three o'clock — past three.

Good night, good night.