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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LAST LULLABY, by HENRY BATAILLE First Line: Sing sweetly, killore Last Line: With a black magpie on a bough. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Singing & Singers; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Songs | |||
Sing sweetly, Killoré, La la hu lala! My little bird in the reeds! Sing sweetly, for the little one is crying. Why is the little one crying so? Why is there all this come and go? Is the heart of the little one, lying there, A heavier heart than it can bear Or than leaps in the bird in the reeds? La la hu lala, sleep, babykin, sleep. Between the grassy hillside and the fields There is a way, as you can see, To sleep among the rosemary, The rosemary so scented with the rain. To meet again, down underground, The brook that runs with the wood's soft sound And never to see the light of day, There is a way. It isn't far to my little farm Where the dove-cote scents come down with the clover. Do you know what will make the little one calm? To take him away, to carry him over, La la hu lala From Moux and Pioray. Do you know what it takes to cover away As splendid a love as you ever did see? No more than it takes to make a green tree. Do you know what is needed to shelter and hide All the love of heaven and my countryside, The greatest burden, the heaviest care, And the story I tell me everywhere That the earth's old gray back has room for me? A little solitary Tree. Quite ordinary, Round or reaching high, With a black magpie On a bough, la la hu, With a black magpie on a bough. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE APOLLO TRIO by CONRAD AIKEN BAD GIRL SINGING by MARK JARMAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 4 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 5 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE IS LIKE THE SCENT OF SYRINGA by MINA LOY |
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