"The Sea's Lullaby."
I listened in the darkness, and I heard Low in the lonely night, strange
lullabies, Uttered with sighs of love, with
broken sighs; And here and there the echo of a word Some savage mother to her babe might
croon Such rhythmic murmurs 'neath a
dropping moon. It is the mother, sleepless all night
long, Beside her children's cradle watching
well, That whispers thus her ancient slum-
ber That chants her mystic immemorial song; Till all the hurry and the noise of day. Fused in immortal calm, dissolve
away. The wild sea-mother, bending o'er
her brood, .<:• With tender solace, rocking us to rest — ' . Have you not seen the ▼ her breast, And felt her kisses thro' the solitude? Have you not known, in half-awaken-
ing trance, The glory of her dark sweet countenance?
—Pall Mall Gazette
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8778, 8 June 1907, Page 2
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138"The Sea's Lullaby." Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8778, 8 June 1907, Page 2
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