LULLABY.
Ah, little one, you’re tired of play, Sleep’s fingers rest upon your brow. You’ve been a woman all the day, You’d be a baby now ; Oh baby, my baby ? You’d be ray baby now.
Perhaps you had forgotten me Because the daisies were so white. But now you come to mother’s knee, My little babe to-night! Oh baby, my baby! My baby every night.
To-morrow when the sun’s awake You’ll seek your flowery fields again. But night shall fall, and for my sake You’ll be a baby then ; Oh baby, my baby! My little baby then.
And you’ll grow big, and love will call; Happen you’ll leave me for your man. And night-times when the shadows fall I’ll greet as mothers can ; Oh baby, my baby! As only mothers can.
And now, my little heart of May, Lie closely, sleep is on your brow, You’ve been a woman all the day, You’d be my baby now ; Oh baby, my baby 1 My little baby now. —From “Poems and Ballads,” by Richard Middleton.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1091, 1 May 1913, Page 4
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173LULLABY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1091, 1 May 1913, Page 4
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