Again I hear the creaking step! — He's rapping at the door! — Too well I know the boding sound That ushers in a bore. - John Godfrey Saxe

When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, — "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, — though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.

But blast the man, with curses loud and deep,
Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station,
Who first invented, and went round advising,
That artificial cut-off, — Early Rising!

"God bless the man who first invented sleep!"
So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.