Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CRADLE SONG, by MERLE ST. CROIX WRIGHT


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First Line: The winds are whispering over the sea
Last Line: And a greater than all to shelter thee.
Subject(s): Mothers


The winds are whispering over the sea,
And the waves are listening smilingly,--
They are telling tales of the shining sky,
And the dusky lands they travel by.

They are telling tales they have often told,--
Of faces new and feelings old,
Of hope and fear, of love and hate,
Of birth and death and human fate,

Of homes of joy and hearts of pain,
Of storm and strife, and peace again,
Of age and youth, of man and maid,
And of baby mine, in the cradle laid.

And the sun laughs down in his own kind way,
For the heart of the sun is as young as they;
And the sea looks up as a loved one should,--
They are old; they know it is good, all good.

You may feel the waves as the cradle swings,
And the air is stirred with the wind's soft wings,
And mother has heard from the sky and sea
That they send "sweet sleep and dreams" to thee.

Then hush! my baby, gently rest
In the night's wide arms, on the earth's broad breast,
The sky above, beneath the sea,
And a greater than all to shelter thee.





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