PETER PAN

And Peter Pan is dead? not so!

When mothers turn the lights down low

And tuck their little sons in bed,

They know that Peter is not dead....

That little rounded blanket-hill;

Those prayer-time eyes, so deep and still —

However wise and great a man

He grows, he still is Peter Pan.

And mothers’ ways are often queer:

They pause in doorways, just to hear

A tiny breathing; think a prayer;

And then go tiptoe down the stair.