NORTH-WEST PASSAGE I. GOOD NIGHT When the bright lamp is carried in, When The sunless hours again begin; O’er all without, in field and lane, The haunted night returns again. Now we behold the embers flee About the firelit hearth; and see Our faces painted as we pass, Like pictures, on the window-glass. Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed. 28 28 Farewell, O brother, sister, sire! O pleasant party round the fire! The songs you sing, the tales you tell,
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