Eugene Field - The night wind

Have you ever heard the wind go "Yooooo"? <br />'T is a pitiful sound to hear! <br />It seems to chill you through and through <br />With a strange and speechless fear. <br />'T is the voice of the night that broods outside <br />When folk should be asleep, <br />And many and many's the time I've cried <br />To the darkness brooding far and wide <br />Over the land and the deep: <br />Whom do you want, O lonely night, <br />That you wail the long hours through?" <br />And the night would say in its ghostly way: <br /> "Yoooooooo! <br /> Yoooooooo! <br /> Yoooooooo!" <br /> <br />My mother told me long ago <br />(When I was a little tad) <br />That when the night went wailing so, <br />Somebody had been bad; <br />And then, when I was snug in bed, <br />Whither I had been sent, <br />With the blankets pulled up round my head, <br />I'd think of what my mother'd said, <br />And wonder what boy she meant! <br />And "Who's been bad to-day?" I'd ask <br />Of the wind that hoarsely blew, <br />And the voice would say in its meaningful way: <br /> "Yoooooooo! <br /> Yoooooooo! <br /> Yoooooooo!" <br /> <br />That this was true I must allow - <br />You'll not believe it, though! <br />Yes, though I'm quite a model now, <br />I was not always so. <br />And if you doubt what things I say, <br />Suppose you make the test; <br />Suppose, when you've been bad some day <br />And up to bed are sent away <br />From mother and the rest - <br />Suppose you ask, "Who has been bad?" <br />And then you'll hear what's true; <br />For the wind will moan in its ruefulest tone: <br /> "Yoooooooo! <br /> Yoooooooo! <br /> Yoooooooo!"<br /><br />Eugene Field<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-night-wind/