The Way the Baby Slept

by James Whitcomb Riley English

This is the way the baby slept:   A mist of tresses backward thrown By quavering sighs where kisses crept   With yearnings she had never known: The little hands were closely kept   About a lily newly blown— And God was with her. And we wept.— And this is the way the baby slept.

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