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A Cradle Song

by W. B. Yeats

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The angels are stooping Above your bed; They weary of trooping With the whimpering dead.
God’s laughing in heaven To see you so good; The Sailing Seven Are gay with His mood.
I sigh that kiss you, For I must own That I shall miss you When you have grown.

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