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A SONG OF SORROW; A LULLABYLET FOR A MAGAZINELET, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wan from the wild and woeful west
Last Line: (but it waked up, drat it!)
Subject(s): Babies; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


WAN from the wild and woful West --
Sleep, little babe, sleep on!
Mother will sing to -- you know the rest --
Sleep, little babe, sleep on!
Softly the sand steals slowly by,
Cursed be the curlew's chittering cry;
By-a-by, oh, by-a-by!
Sleep, little babe, sleep on!

Rosy and sweet come the hush of night --
Sleep, little babe, sleep on!
(Twig to the lilt, I have got it all right)
Sleep, little babe, sleep on!
Dark are the dark and darkling days
Winding the webbed and winsome ways,
Homeward she creeps in dim amaze --
Sleep, little babe, sleep on!
(But it waked up, drat it!)





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