THE DREAM-CHILD.
■ The 1 dream-child only comes night . • To lie upon my breast. The daylight hours are weary hours, . The shadowed hours are best. The dream-child oniy comes at night ■ To lie against my .heart.; _ . But so hftve.'l; that, am no wife, .- . In motherhood my part. - The felltsea has my own true'love; ; No happiness havo I ' _ Sut when the dream-child comes at night Within my arms to lie. The cliild that had been 'mine and his Is mine m dreams alone— ; , ' I pray the sea has dreams .to give , ,- ; To.'jiim she made her own., v • —8.C., in the 'Westminster Gazette."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 167, 8 April 1908, Page 3
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