Poems (Coates 1916)/Volume II/Cradle Song

by Florence Earle Coates

For other versions of this work, see Cradle Song (Coates).

CRADLE SONG

THY heart and mine are one, my dear,
At dawn and set of sun;
When skies are bright, when days are drear,
Thy heart and mine are one!

About us move the hapless folk
Whom paltry things estrange;
The friends that feel their bond a yoke,
The loves that lightly change;

But thou and I, my bonny child,
Their dangers blithely shun,
Nor can by folly be beguiled,—
For thou and I are one!