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/ A little child, one night, awoke and cried, / "Oh, help me, father! there is something wild / Before me! help me! " Hurrying to his side / I answered, "I am here. You dreamed, my child."
/ "A dream? -- " he questioned. "Oh, I could not see! / It was so dark! -- Take me into your bed! " -- / And I, who loved him, held him soothingly, / And smiling on his terror, comforted.