<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416642" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>How Did You Rest, Last Night?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'How did you rest, last night?'--<br>I've heard my gran'pap say<br>Them words a thousand times--that's right--<br>Jes them words thataway!<br>As punctchul-like as morning dast<br>To ever heave in sight<br>Gran'pap 'ud allus haf to ast--<br>'How did you rest, last night?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Us young-uns used to grin,<br>At breakfast, on the sly,<br>And mock the wobble of his chin<br>And eyebrows belt so high<br>And kind: _'How did you rest, last night?'_<br>We'd mumble and let on<br>Our voices trimbled, and our sight<br>Was dim, and hearin' gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bad as I used to be,<br>All I'm a-wantin' is<br>As puore and ca'm a sleep fer me<br>And sweet a sleep as his!<br>And so I pray, on Jedgment Day<br>To wake, and with its light<br>See _his_ face dawn, and hear him say--<br>'How did you rest, last night?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416642" data-title="How Did You Rest, Last Night? de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="'How did you rest, last night?'-- I've heard my gran'pap say Them words a thousand times--that's right-- Jes them words thataway! As punctchul-like as morning dast To ever heave in sight Gran'pap 'ud allus haf to ast-- 'How did you rest, last nigh..."></div> </div> </div>

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