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ONCE FOR ALL.
A CHILL.
WHAT can lambkins do
All the keen night through?
Nestle by their woolly mother
The careful ewe.
All the keen night through?
Nestle by their woolly mother
The careful ewe.
What can nestlings do
In the nightly dew?
Sleep beneath their mother's wing
Till day breaks anew.
In the nightly dew?
Sleep beneath their mother's wing
Till day breaks anew.
If in field or tree
There might only be
Such a warm soft sleeping-place
Found for me!
There might only be
Such a warm soft sleeping-place
Found for me!
SOMEWHERE OR OTHER.
SOMEWHERE or other there must surely be
The face not seen, the voice not heard,
The heart that not yet—never yet—ah me!
Made answer to my word.
The face not seen, the voice not heard,
The heart that not yet—never yet—ah me!
Made answer to my word.
Somewhere or other, may be near or far;
Past land and sea, clean out of sight;
Beyond the wandering moon, beyond the star
That tracks her night by night.
Past land and sea, clean out of sight;
Beyond the wandering moon, beyond the star
That tracks her night by night.
