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 1 1 6 Songs of Experience The Little Girl Lost In futurity i I prophetic see That the earth from sleep (Grave the sentence deep) Shall arise and seek 5 For her maker meek ; And the desart wild Become a garden mild. In the southern clime, 9 Where the summer's prime Never fades away, Lovely Lyca lay. Seven summers old 13 Lovely Lyca told ; She had wander'd long Hearing wild birds' song, 'Sweet sleep, come to me 17 Underneath this tree. Do father, mother, weep? Where can Lyca sleep? ' Lost in desart wild ar Is your little child. How can Lyca sleep If her mother weep ? ' If her heart does ake 25 Then let Lyca wake ; If my mother sleep, Lyca shall not weep. This song, and its sequel 'The Little Girl Found,' are engraved upon three plates, the first of which contains the first ten stanzas of the present poem, and the second the conclusion of the same with the first three stanzas and half of the fourth of the next song. The first and last plates are among the number reprinted from the originals by Gilchrist. No manuscript versions of these songs are known to exist. I. . . see] I prophesy WBY. 17-32 Wilk. and Shep. omit quotation niarhs.