NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And
laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And
everything else is still.
"Then come home, my children, the sun is gone
down,
And the dews of night arise;
Come, come, leave off play, and let us
away,
Till the morning appears in the skies."
"No, no, let us play,
for it is yet day,
And we cannot go to sleep;
Besides, in the sky the
little birds fly,
And the hills are all covered with sheep."
"Well, well,
go and play till the light fades away,
And then go home to bed."
The
little ones leaped, and shouted, and laughed,
And all the hills echoed.
NURSE'S SONG
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