Light outside

It's time for bed but even with the blinds closed and the curtains drawn I can see that it's still light outside. Never mind bed ... I should be out playing in the garden!


"In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?"

(Robert Louis Stevenson - Bed in Summer)