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1865–1939

A CRADLE SONG

William Butler Yeats

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 shining Seven Are gay with His mood.

I kiss you and kiss you, My pigeon, my own; Ah, how I shall miss you When you have grown.

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