IN THE NIHGT WATCHES.
Sleep visits not my eyelids, yet I rest Ina content more deep than any sleep ; Nay, rapt in joy my vigil here I keep, M ith trembling hands elapsed to my- eager breast. For one I love, after long hours of pain, Sleeps near me now. Think you that I could sleep, Though needless now the vigil that I keep. With the dread lifted from my heart and brain ? Think you that I would sleep ? would be beguiled, Cheated, of this my joy ? Nay, let me fast From sleep through Tong glad hours, to hear at last The low, soft breathing of my ailing child. Alice Wellington Rollins.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 47, 22 November 1890, Page 14
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112IN THE NIHGT WATCHES. New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 47, 22 November 1890, Page 14
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