"Until it's time to go to slee-"

[pomes]

I need no sleep! I wide awake!
I run to give! I dash to take!
I crawl and tickle, shout and sing -
I do all and any thing!

I stamp my feet! I stamp your hands!
I climb all over Mammy-land!
I bounce and jog! I laugh and shout!
I play on swing! I go late out!

It's only nine! It's only ten!
It's not time for bed again!
It's not eleven, it's only twelve!
I stay up - go bed yourselves!

I climb a chair! I climb a table!
I climb a thing I wasn't able!
I run in circles, I fall down -
I want to go to bed right now!

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Grown Up

Was it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight?

-- Millay