Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1918 — CHILD AND MOTHER [ARTICLE]

CHILD AND MOTHER

O Mother-my-love, if you’ll give me your hand, And go where I ask you to wander, I will lead you away to a beautiful land— The Dreamland that’s waiting out yon- ■ der. “ We’ll walk" in a sweet posle garden out there Where the moonlight and starlight are streaming And the flowers and birds are filling the air With fragrance and music of dreaming. There’ll be no little tired-out boy to undress No questions or cares to perplex you; There’ll be no little bruises or bumps to caress, j Nor patches of stockings to vex you. For I’ll rock you away on a silver dew stream, > And sing you asleep when you’re weary, And no one shaU know of our beautiful dream, But you and your own little dearie. And when I’m tired I’ll nestle my head In the bosom that’s soothed me so often And the wide-awake stars shall sing in I my stead A song whieh our dreaming shall soften. So Mother-my-love, let me take your dear hand, ■ • And away through the starlight we’ll wander— Away through the mist to the beautiful land— The Dreamland that’s waiting out yonder! —Eugene Field.