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Heavily slumbered noonday bright	A
Upon the lone field glory dight	A
A burnished grassy sea	B
The child in gorgeous golden hours	C
Through heaven descended starry flowers	C
Went walking on the lea	B
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Velvety bees make busy hum	D
Green flies and striped wasps go and come	D
The butterflies gleam white	A
Blue burning vaporous to and fro	E
The dragon flies like arrows go	E
Or hang in moveless flight	A
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Not one she followed like a rill	F
She wandered on with quiet will	F
Received but did not miss	G
Her step was neither quick nor long	H
Nought but a snatch of murmured song	H
Ever revealed her bliss	G
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An almost solemn woman child	A
Not fashioned frolicsome and wild	A
She had more love than glee	B
And now though nine and nothing more	I
Another little child she bore	I
Almost as big as she	B
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No silken cloud from solar harms	J
Had she to spread with shifting arms	J
She dodged him from the sun	K
Mother and sister both in heart	A
She did a gracious woman's part	A
Life's task even now begun	K
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They came upon a stagnant ditch	L
The slippery sloping banks of which	L
More varied blossoms line	M
Some ragged robins baby spies	N
Stretches his hands and crows and cries	N
Plain saying They are mine	M
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What baby wants that baby has	O
A law unalterable as	O
The poor shall serve the rich	L
They are beyond her reach almost	A
She kneels she strains and too engrossed	A
Topples into the ditch	L
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Adown the side she slanting rolled	A
But her two arms convulsive hold	A
The precious baby tight	A
She lets herself sublimely go	E
And in the ditch's muddy flow	E
Stands up in evil plight	A
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'Tis nothing that her feet are wet	A
But her new shoes she can't forget	A
They cost five shillings bright	A
Her petticoat her tippet blue	P
Her frock they're smeared with slime like glue	P
But baby is all right	A
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And baby laughs and baby crows	Q
And baby being right she knows	Q
That nothing can be wrong	H
So with a troubled heart yet stout	A
She plans how ever to get out	A
With meditation long	H
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The high bank's edge is far away	R
The slope is steep and made of clay	R
And what to do with baby	B
For even a monkey up to run	K
Would need his four hands every one	K
She is perplexed as may be	B
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And all her puzzling is no good	A
Blank staring up the side she stood	A
Which settling she grew higher	S
At last seized with a fresh dismay	R
Lest baby's patience should give way	R
She plucked her feet from the mire	T
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And up and down the ditch not glad	A
But patient very did promenade	A
Splash splash went her small feet	A
And baby thought it rare good fun	K
Sucking his bit of pulpy bun	K
And smelling meadow sweet	A
	-
But oh the world that she had left	A
The meads from her so lately reft	A
Poor infant Proserpine	K
A fabled land they lay above	U
A paradise of sunny love	U
In breezy space divine	K
	-
Frequent from neighbouring village green	K
Came sounds of laughter faintly keen	K
And barks of well known dogs	V
While she the hot sun overhead	A
Her lonely watery way must tread	A
In mud and weeds and frogs	V
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Sudden the ditch about her shakes	W
Her little heart responsive quakes	W
With fear of uncouth woes	Q
She lifts her boding eyes perforce	X
To see the huge head of a horse	X
Go past upon its nose	Q
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Then hark what sounds of tearing grass	Y
And puffing breath With knobs of brass	Y
On horns of frightful size	N
A cow's head through the broken hedge	Z
Looks awful from the other edge	Z
Though mild her pondering eyes	N
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The horse the cow are passed and gone	K
The sun keeps going on and on	K
And still no help comes near	A2
At misery's last oh joy the sound	A
Of human footsteps on the ground	A
She cried aloud I'm here	B2
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It was a man oh heavenly joy	C2
He looked amazed at girl and boy	C2
And reached his hand so strong	H
Give me the child he said but no	K
Care would not let the burden go	K
Which Love had borne so long	H
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Smiling he kneels with outstretched hands	D2
And them unparted safely lands	D2
In the upper world again	K
Her low thanks feebly murmured she	B
Drags her legs homeward painfully	B
Poor wet one chickened hen	K
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Arrived at length Lo scarce a speck	E2
Was on the child from heel to neck	E2
Though she was sorely mired	A
No tear confessed the long drawn rack	F2
Till her mother took the baby back	F2
And the she cried I'm tired	A
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And intermixed with sobbing wail	G2
She told her mother all the tale	G2
Her wet cheeks in a glow	K
But mother mother though I fell	H2
I kept the baby pretty well	H2
I did not let him go	K

George Macdonald

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