<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414201" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Maternal Musings.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be not afraid there’s nought to fear.<br>The night is not thine enemy<br>So sleep my babe sleep peacefully.<br>Thou knowest well that I am near.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou are the prize which I long sought.<br>A joy I thought denied to me<br> so I will guard the faithfully <br>against all harm of any sort.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If thou shouldst stir I come to thee, <br>a cry will bring me to thy side.<br>The love I bear and cannot hide<br> I’m proud to display openly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can forget my childless years <br>Now thou art here to comfort me.<br>I submit to thy tyrannies<br> thou rulest me with smiles and tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though all too quickly thou wilt grow.<br>Become a boy and then a man.<br>I must enjoy thee whilst I can.<br>Although I pray the years pass slow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At least for now thou needest me<br> thou art dependent on my care.<br>A burden which I gladly bear.<br>I am a mother finally.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy sire is prouder far than I<br> accepts all credit as his due.<br>Asmost new fathers tend to do.<br>Thou art the apple of his eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy coming was so long delayed.<br>We thought that we might never see <br>a babe to grace our nursery<br>Thou art the child for which we prayed <br>.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be not afraid sleep peacefully. <br>In thy cradle warm and dry <br>and I will sing a lullaby.<br>Watch over thee adoringly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">24-Mar-08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=414201" data-title="Maternal Musings. de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Be not afraid there’s nought to fear. The night is not thine enemy So sleep my babe sleep peacefully. Thou knowest well that I am near. Thou are the prize which I long sought. A joy I thought denied to me so I will guard the faithfully agains..."></div> </div> </div>

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