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Little Child, Good Child, go to sleep. The tree-toads purr and the peepers peep; Under the apple-tree grass grows deep; Little Child, Good Child, go to sleep!
Big star out in the orange west; Orioles swung in their gypsy nest; Soft wind singing what you love best; Rest till the sun-rise; rest, Child, rest!
Swift dreams swarm in a silver flight. -- Hand in hand with the sleepy Night Lie down soft with your eyelids tight. -- Hush, Child, little Child! Hush. -- Good-night --