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THE GRANDSIRE

LOVED him so; his voice had grown

Into my heart, and now to hear

The pretty song he had sung so long

Die on the lips to me so dear!

He a child with golden curls,

And I with head as white as snow

1 knelt down there and made this pray'r: "God, let me be the first to go!"

How often I recall it now:

My darling tossing on his bed,

I sitting there in mute despair,

Smoothing the curls that crowned his head. They did not speak to me of death

A feeling here had told me so; What could I say or do but pray That I might be the first to go?

THE GRANDSIRE

Yet, thinking of him standing there
Out yonder as the years go by,
Waiting for me to come, I see

'T was better he should wait, not I. For when I walk the vale of death,

Above the wail of Jordan's flow

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Shall rise a song that shall make me strongThe call of the child that was first to go.

HUSHABY, SWEET MY OWN

AIR is the castle up on the hill —

FAIR Hushaby, sweet my own!

The night is fair, and the waves are still,
And the wind is singing to you and to me
In this lowly home beside the sea—
Hushaby, sweet my own!

On yonder hill is store of wealth —
Hushaby, sweet my own!

And revelers drink to a little one's health;
But you and I bide night and day
For the other love that has sailed away-
Hushaby, sweet my own!

See not, dear eyes, the forms that creep
Ghostlike, O my own!

Out of the mists of the murmuring deep;

Oh, see them not and make no cry

Till the angels of death have passed us by— Hushaby, sweet my own!

HUSHABY, SWEET MY OWN

Ah, little they reck of you and me

Hushaby, sweet my own!

In our lonely home beside the sea;
They seek the castle up on the hill,

And there they will do their ghostly will.
Hushaby, O my own!

Here by the sea a mother croons

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'Hushaby, sweet my own!"

In yonder castle a mother swoons

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While the angels go down to the misty deep,

Bearing a little one fast asleep

Hushaby. sweet my own!

CHILD AND MOTHER

MOTHER-MY-LOVE, if you 'll give me your

0 hand,

And go where I ask you to wander, I will lead you away to a beautiful landThe Dreamland that 's waiting out yonder. We'll walk in a sweet-posie garden out there Where moonlight and starlight are streaming And the flowers and the birds are filling the air With the fragrance and music of dreaming.

There'll be no little tired-out boy to undress,
No questions or cares to perplex you;
There'll be no little bruises or bumps to caress,
Nor patching of stockings to vex you.
For I'll rock you away on a silver-dew stream,
And sing you asleep when you 're weary,
And no one shall know of our beautiful dream
But you and your own little dearie.

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