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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LAST CRADLE SONG, by JAMES HOGG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Bawloo, my bonnie baby, bawlililu
Last Line: I'll sing to my baby for ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies
First Line: Bawloo, my bonnie baby, bawlililu
Last Line: I'll sing to my baby for ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies
Bawloo, my bonnie baby, bawlililu,
Light be thy care and cumber;
Bawloo, my bonnie baby, bawlililu,
Oh, sweet be thy sinless slumber.
Ere thou wert born my youthful heart
Yearned o'er my babe with sorrow;
Long is the night-noon that we must part,
But bright shall arise the morrow.
Bawloo, my bonnie baby, bawlililu,
Here no more will I see thee;
Bawloo, my bonnie baby, bawlililu,
Oh, sair is my heart to lea' thee.
But far within you sky so blue,
In love that fail shall never,
In valleys beyond the land of the dew,
I'll sing to my baby for ever.
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