 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 586 pages
...Poor, weeping babe, with bloody fingers pressed, And tried with pouting lips her milkless breast ; "Alas ! we both with cold and hunger quake — Why do you weep ; — Mamma will soon awake." " She'll wake no more ! " the hapless mourner cried, Upturned his eyes, and clasped his... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1899 - 544 pages
...Poor, weeping babe, with bloody fingers pressed, And tried with pouting lips her milkless breast ; "Alas ! we both with cold and hunger quake — Why do you weep ; — Mamma will soon awake." " She'll wake no more ! " the hapless mourner cried, Upturned his eyes, and clasped his... | |
 | Charles Peters - 1904 - 360 pages
...bounds, ' Speak low,' he cries, and gives his little hand, ' Mamma's asleep upon the dew-cold sand ; Alas ! we both with cold and hunger quake — Why do you weep? Mamma will soon awake.' — ' She'll wake no more ! ' the hopeless mourner cried, Upturned his eyes, and clasped... | |
 | Readers - 1899 - 336 pages
...bounds: — " Speak low," he cries, and gives his little hand, ' ' Mamma's asleep upon the dew-cold sand. Alas ! we both with cold and hunger quake — Why do you weep ? — Mamma will soon awake." " She'll wake no more !" the hopeless mourner cried, Upturned his eyes, and clasped his... | |
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Soon hears his listening son the welcome sounds, With open arms and sparkling eyes he bounds : — 
