 | Verses by Sarah Orne Jewett |  |
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THE GLOUCESTER MOTHER
When autumn winds are high,
They wake and trouble me
With thoughts of people lost
A-coming on the coast,
And all the ships at sea.
They wake and trouble me
With thoughts of people lost
A-coming on the coast,
And all the ships at sea.
How dark, how dark and cold
And fearful in the waves,
Are tired folk who lie not still
And quiet in their graves,
In moving waters deep
That will not let them sleep
As they may sleep on any hills,
May sleep ashore till time is old
And all the earth is frosty cold.
Under the flowers a thousand springs
They sleep and dream of many things.
And fearful in the waves,
Are tired folk who lie not still
And quiet in their graves,
In moving waters deep
That will not let them sleep
As they may sleep on any hills,
May sleep ashore till time is old
And all the earth is frosty cold.
Under the flowers a thousand springs
They sleep and dream of many things.
God bless them all who die at sea!
If they must sleep in restless waves,
God make them dream they are ashore
With grass above their graves!
If they must sleep in restless waves,
God make them dream they are ashore
With grass above their graves!
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