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LULLABY by FLORENCE KILPATRICK MIXTER

First Line: COME SLEEP. HER HEART'S A WOOD-ANEMONE
Last Line: COME SLEEP. . . . COME SLEEP. . . .

Come, sleep. Her heart's a wood-anemone.
Her thoughts are swallows flown
Across the dusk. Her hair's a willow-tree
By the west wind blown.
Her eyes are pools where bubbles rise and break --
Dream-bubbles from the deep.
Her soul's a moth that flutters in their wake.
Come sleep. . . . come sleep. . . .



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