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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



GLEANINGS, 



A Japanese Lullaby. 

 Sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings, — 

 Little blue pigeon with velvet eyes; 

 Sleep to the singing of mother-bird swinging- 

 Swinging the nest where her little one lies. 



Away out yonder I see a star, — 

 Silvery star with a twinkling song; 

 To the soft dew falling I hear it calling — 

 Calling and twinkling the night along. 



In through the window a moonbeam comes, — 

 Little gold moonbeam with misty wings; 

 All silently creeping, it asks, "Is he sleeping- 

 Sleeping and dreaming while mother sings?" 



Eugene Field, 



