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"Too deep for swift telling; and yet, my one lover,
I've conned thee an answer, it waits thee to-night."

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"You glow-worms, shine out, and the pathway

discover

And dance with the cuckoo-buds slender and small!

To him that comes darkling along the rough Here's two bonny boys, and here's mother's steep.

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own lasses,

Eager to gather them all.

Heigh-ho! daisies and buttercups!

Mother shall thread them a daisy chain; Sing them a song of the pretty hedge-sparrow, That loved her brown little ones, loved them

full fain;

Sing, "Heart thou art wide, though the house be but narrow,"

Sing once and sing it again.

Heigh-ho! daisies and buttercups, Sweet wagging cowslips, they bend and they bow;

A ship sails afar over warm ocean waters, And haply one musing doth stand at her prow.

O bonny brown sons, and O sweet little daughters,

May-be he thinks on you now!

Heigh-ho! daisies and buttercups,

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were grown

They spread out their wings to fly.

Oh, one after one they flew away,

Far up to the heavenly blue,
To the better country, the upper day;
And I wish I was going, too.

I pray you what is the nest to me,
My empty nest?

And what is the shore where I stood to see
My boat sail down to the west?

Can I call that home where I anchor yet,
Though my good man has sailed?
Can I call that home where my nest was set,
Now all its hope hath failed?

Nay, but the port where my sailor went,

And the land where my nestlings be: There is the home where my thoughts are sent,

The only home for me-Ah, me!

JEAN INGELOW.

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