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A CRADLE SONG by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE ANGELS ARE STOOPING [OR, BENDING]
Last Line: WHEN YOU HAVE GROWN.
Subject(s): CHILDREN; MOTHERS; CHILDHOOD;

The angels are stooping
Above your bed;
They weary of trooping
With the whimpering dead.

God's laughing in heaven
To see you so good;
The Shining Seven
Are gay with His mood.

I kiss you and kiss you,
My pigeon, my own;
Ah, how I shall miss you
When you have grown.



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