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Wee babies

Chapter 39: Lullaby.
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About This Book

A collection of short, illustrated verses that portray infants and toddlers in familiar domestic scenes—play, naps, mealtimes, mischief, outings, and simple fantasies. Each poem uses rhythmic, child-friendly language to celebrate sensory details, family relationships, and small adventures, often observing twins, siblings, neighborhood babies, and everyday mishaps like jam on the face or rainy-day confinement. The volume reads like a series of affectionate snapshots aimed at entertaining and soothing young readers and caregivers.

Lullaby.

Wide awake! wide awake! baby’s so wide awake,
What can I bring that will lull her to rest?
Poppies from Flowerland,
Raindrops from Showerland,
Silent slow shadows that creep up the west.
Laughings, and cooings, oh what roguish doings,
Why this is sleepy-time, baby, you know.
What can I bring to her?
What can I sing to her?
So that my baby to dreamland may go.
Lullaby, lullaby, sing a song dull, oh bye
Bye little baby, now shut up your eyes,
Moon shadowed now’s the land,
Dreams come from drowsy land,
Droop dreamy eyelids and lie sleepy wise.