<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390958" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nightfall in Dordrecht</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mill goes toiling slowly around<br>With steady and solemn creak,<br>And my little one hears in the kindly sound<br>The voice of the old mill speak.<br>While round and round those big white wings <br>Grimly and ghostlike creep,<br>My little one hears that the old mill sings<br>“Sleep, little tulip, sleep!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sails are reefed and the nets are drawn,<br>And, over his pot of beer, <br>The fisher, against the morrow’s dawn,<br>Lustily maketh cheer.<br>He mocks at the winds that caper along<br>From the far-off clamorous deep,—<br>But we—we love their lullaby song <br>Of “Sleep, little tulip, sleep!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old dog Fritz in slumber sound<br>Groans of the stony mart:<br>To-morrow how proudly he ’ll trot you round,<br>Hitched to our new milk-cart! <br>And you shall help me blanket the kine<br>And fold the gentle sheep,<br>And set the herring a-soak in brine,—<br>But now, little tulip, sleep!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Dream-One comes to button the eyes <br>That wearily droop and blink,<br>While the old mill buffets the frowning skies<br>And scolds at the stars that wink;<br>Over your face the misty wings<br>Of that beautiful Dream-One sweep, <br>And rocking your cradle she softly sings<br>“Sleep, little tulip, sleep!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390958" data-title="Nightfall in Dordrecht de Eugene Field" data-description="The mill goes toiling slowly around With steady and solemn creak, And my little one hears in the kindly sound The voice of the old mill speak. While round and round those big white wings Grimly and ghostlike creep, My little one hears that the ol..."></div> </div> </div>

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