“Early to Bed” by Mary Mapes Dodge

Early to bed and early to rise:
If that would make me wealthy and wise
I’d rise at daybreak, cold or hot,
And go back to bed at once. Why not?

From: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/52067

Date: 1874

By: Mary Mapes Dodge (1831-1905)

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