When in the paling darkness of the lonely dawnyou stretch your arms for your baby in the bed,I shall say, "Baby is not there!"- mother, I am going.I shall become a delicate draught of airand caress you; and I shall be ripplesu and kiss you again.in the water when you bathe; and kiss yoIn the gusty night when the rain patters on the leavesyou will hear my whisper in your bed,ghtning through the open window into your rooand my laughter will flash with the l im.If you lie awake, thinking of your baby till late into the night,I shall sing to you form the stars, "Sleep, mother, sleep."e upon your bosom while you sleep.On the straying moonbeams I shall steal over your bed, and liI shall become a dream, and through the little openingof your eyelids I shall slip into the depths of your sleep;and when you wake up and look round startled,the darkness.like a twinkling firefly I shall flit out intoWhen, on the great festival of PUJA,the neighbours' children come and play about the house,I shall melt into the music of the fluteand throb in your heart all day .Dear suntie will come with your PUJA presents and will ask,"Where is our baby, sister? Mother you tell her softly,ul.""He is in the pupils of my eyes, he is my body and my so
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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