Lullaby, Neil Gaiman

"Sleep my little babby-oh

Sleep until you waken

When you wake you'll see the world

If I'm not mistaken..."

"You're not", whispered Bod. "And I shall."

"Kiss a lover

Dance a measure,

Find your name

And buried treasure..."

Then the last lines of the song came back to Mistress Owens, and she sang them to her son.

"Face your life,

Its pain, its pleasure,

Leave no path untaken."

"Leave no path untaken", repeated Bod. "A difficult challenge, but I can try my best."

He tried to put his arms around his mother then, as he had when he was a child, although he might as well have been trying to hold mist, for he was alone in the path.

-Neil Gayman, "The graveyard book" . HarperCollins Publishers. 2008.