An Oxford Anthology of English PoetryHoward Foster Lowry, Willard Thorp |
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... Sleep , sleep , happy child , All creation slept and smil'd ; Sleep , sleep , happy sleep , While o'er thee thy mother weep . Sweet babe , in thy face Holy image I can trace . 10 20 Sweet babe , once like thee , Thy Maker lay and wept ...
... Sleep , sleep , happy child , All creation slept and smil'd ; Sleep , sleep , happy sleep , While o'er thee thy mother weep . Sweet babe , in thy face Holy image I can trace . 10 20 Sweet babe , once like thee , Thy Maker lay and wept ...
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... Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking ; Dream of battled fields no more , Days of danger , nights of waking . In our isle's enchanted hall , Hands unseen thy couch are strewing , Fairy strains of music fall , Every sense in slumber ...
... Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking ; Dream of battled fields no more , Days of danger , nights of waking . In our isle's enchanted hall , Hands unseen thy couch are strewing , Fairy strains of music fall , Every sense in slumber ...
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... sleep as they sleep ; even so . For the glass of the years is brittle wherein we gaze for a span ; A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which is man . So long I endure , no longer ; and laugh not again , neither weep . For ...
... sleep as they sleep ; even so . For the glass of the years is brittle wherein we gaze for a span ; A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which is man . So long I endure , no longer ; and laugh not again , neither weep . For ...
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