Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHILD AND MOTHER, by EUGENE FIELD



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First Line: O mother-my-love, if you'll give me your hand
Last Line: The dreamland that's waiting out yonder!
Variant Title(s): Mother And I
Subject(s): Mothers


O MOTHER-MY-LOVE, if you'll give me your hand,
And go where I ask you to wander,
I will lead you away to a beautiful land--
The Dreamland that's waiting out yonder.
We'll walk in a sweet-posie garden out there
Where moonlight and starlight are streaming
And the flowers and birds are filling the air
With fragrance and music of dreaming.

There'll be no little tired-out boy to undress,
No questions or cares to perplex you;
There'll be no little bruises or bumps to caress,
Nor patching of stockings to vex you.
For I'll rock you away on a silver-dew stream,
And sing you asleep when you're weary.
And no one shall know of our beautiful dream
But you and your own little dearie.

And when I am tired I'll nestle my head
In the bosom that's soothed me so often,
And the wide-awake stars shall sing in my stead
A song which our dreaming shall soften.
So Mother-my-Love, let me take your dear hand,
And away through the starlight we'll wander--
Away through the mist to the beautiful land--
The Dreamland that's waiting out yonder!






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