<h3><SPAN name="16">NURSE’S SONG</SPAN></h3>
When voices of children are heard on the green,<br/>
And laughing is heard on the hill,<br/>
My heart is at rest within my breast,<br/>
And everything else is still.<br/>
‘Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down,<br/>
And the dews of night arise;<br/>
Come, come, leave off play, and let us away,<br/>
Till the morning appears in the skies.’
<br/><br/>‘No, no, let us play, for it is yet day,<br/>
And we cannot go to sleep;<br/>
Besides, in the sky the little birds fly,<br/>
And the hills are all covered with sheep.’<br/>
‘Well, well, go and play till the light fades away,<br/>
And then go home to bed.’<br/>
The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laughed,<br/>
And all the hills echoed.
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