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CRADLE SONGS.
V.
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Cease thy bitter crying!
In the cold earth deep,
Deep in death's long sleep,
O that we were lying!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Cease thy bitter crying!
In the cold earth deep,
Deep in death's long sleep,
O that we were lying!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Let's forget to-morrow
Comes, when we must bear
Scorn, and want, and care,
Waking but for sorrow!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Let's forget to-morrow
Comes, when we must bear
Scorn, and want, and care,
Waking but for sorrow!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Thy poor mother pity!
Worn and faint, she hears
No voice her life that cheers
In all this great, hard city;
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Thy poor mother pity!
Worn and faint, she hears
No voice her life that cheers
In all this great, hard city;
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Thou hast thy mother only;
Cold and still lies he
Who worked for thee and me,
And left us, boy, how lonely!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Thou hast thy mother only;
Cold and still lies he
Who worked for thee and me,
And left us, boy, how lonely!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Faint and, God! how weary!
Let these eyes, how weary!
Baby mine, in rest,
Forget this world so dreary!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Faint and, God! how weary!
Let these eyes, how weary!
Baby mine, in rest,
Forget this world so dreary!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
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Sleep, baby, sleep!
Heed not mother's crying!
O boy, by God's will,
We were cold and still,
With thy father lying!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Heed not mother's crying!
O boy, by God's will,
We were cold and still,
With thy father lying!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
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