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DANAE'S LULLABY by ANDREW LANG

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First Line: CHILD, MY CHILD, HOW SOUND YOU SLEEP
Last Line: AND THE BREAKING OF THE BRINE.
Subject(s): DANAE; MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL;
Child, my child, how sound you sleep!
Though your mother's care is deep,
You can lie with heart at rest
In the narrow brass-bound chest;
In the starless night and drear
You can sleep, and never hear
Billows breaking, and the cry
Of the night wind wandering by;
In soft purple mantle sleeping
With your little face on mine,
Hearing not your mother weeping
And the breaking of the brine.



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