LULLABY.
" Rockaby, baby, thy oradle is green ; Father's a nobleman, mother's a queen." Bookaby, lullaby, all the day long, Down to the land of the lullaby song. Babyland never again will be thine, Land of all mystery, holy, divine, Motherland, Otherland, Land of a time ne'er again to be seen ; Plowerland, Bowerland, Airyland, Fairyland, Eookaby, baby, thy oradle is green. Eockaby, baby, thy mother will keep Gentle watch over thine azur*-ey a d Bleep ; Baby can't feel what the mother-heart knows, Throbbing ita fear o'er your quite repose. Mother-hearb knows how baby must fight Wearily on through the fast-coming night ; Battle unending, Honour defending. Baby must wage with the power unseen, Sleep now, oh, baby dear, God and thy mother near; Rockaby, baby, thy oradle isgreen. Rookaby, baby, the days will grow long j Silent the voice of the mother-love song. Bowed with sore burdens the man-life must own, Sorrows that baby must bear all alone. Wonderland can never come baok again ; Thought will come soon— and with reason comes pain, Sorrowland, Motherland, Drearyland, Wearyland, Baby and Heavenland lying between, Smile, then, in Motherland, Dream in the Otherland, Rockaby, baby, thy cradle is green. — From the German.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1892, 15 May 1890, Page 39
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197LULLABY. Otago Witness, Issue 1892, 15 May 1890, Page 39
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