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Once, when I look'd along the laughing earth, Up the blue heavens, and through the middle air, Joyfully ringing with the sky-lark's song, I wept! and thought how sad for one so young To bid farewell to so much happiness. But Christ hath call'd me from this lower world. Delightful though it be.

Mother. Hush, lightly tread! still tranquilly she sleeps, As, when a babe, I rock'd her on my heart.