Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CRADLE SONG, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN


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CRADLE SONG, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, my babe, your road of dreams
Last Line: Beating on a golden drum!


Sleep, my babe, your road of dreams
By the fireflies shall be lighted:
See them link their tingling teams
Round you, lest you go be-nighted!

Off to-night your father flies
Honey from the stars to bring:
Star-town, ah, how far it lies!
Thither he goes travelling.

But at daybreak, big with news,
Backward riding he shall come,
Bright of hoof across the dews,
Beating on a golden drum!





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