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THE FOUNDLING by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: WHAT TIME THE WANDERING MOTHER NIGHT
Last Line: WENT VANISHING AWAY.
Subject(s): NIGHT; ORPHANS; BEDTIME; FOUNDLINGS;

What time the wandering mother night
Made ready to depart,
A new-born, trembling dream of light
She laid upon my heart.
"Keep it," she sighed, and bending low
Wept o'er it where it lay;
Then, suddenly as April snow,
Went vanishing away.



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