Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A LULLABY, by WILLIS WALTON FRANZ


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A LULLABY, by                    
First Line: Close to the heart that is throbbing in love for you
Last Line: Sweet is thy rest.
Subject(s): Mothers


CLOSE to the heart that is throbbing in love for you,
Innocent, sleep.
Mother love watches in tenderness over you,
Quietly sleep.
Circled by arms that are guarding thy purity,
While from the ocean great waves of futurity
Impotent break on thy bars of security,
Little one, sleep.

Fresh from the portals of Heaven's infinity,
Peacefully rest.
Peace was thy gift from the hand of Divinity--
Exquisite rest.
Tuned is the heart to the heavenly harmony,
Love hath imprinted its ravishing charm on thee,
Innocent soul, with no vestige of harm in thee,
Sweet is thy rest.





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