| Awake, awake my little boy!
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| Thou wast thy mother’s only joy:
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| Why dost thou weep in thy gentle sleep?
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| Awake! |
| Thy father does thee keep
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| O, what land is the land of dreams?
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| What are its mountains, and what are its streams?
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| O father, I saw my mother there
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| Among the lillies by waters fair
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| Among the lambs clothed in white
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| She walked with her Thomas in sweet delight
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| I wept for joy, like a dove I mourn
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| O when shall I again return?
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| Dear child, I also by pleasant streams
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| Have wandered all night in the land of dreams
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| But though calm and warm the waters wide
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| I could not get to the other side
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| Father, o father, what do we here
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| In this land of unbelief and fear?
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| The land of dreams is better far
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| Above the light of the morning star |