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What is baby Lillie dreaming 
When this angel smile is beaming? 
Cannot mamma hear the music 
That is whispered in thine car 
And see something of the beauty 
1 hat to baby must be near? 
Happy faces! Sweetly smiling. 
All the thoughts of earth beguiling. 
Showing thee, in mid-day slumber.- 
Back to play-grounds left behind 
That were thine, ere earthly shackles 
With thy spirit-half entwined. 
Precious treasure! little starling! 
Will they guide thee, Lillie darling ? 
Help thee carry nature’s burden 
Through the devious ways of life ?— 
Take thee back again triumphant 
Over passion, over strife? 
Yes, I see thy smile inditing 
Heaven’s answer, while ’tis lighting 
L T p thy features like an angel’s— 
As those features were before 
Heaven sent them to inhabit 
The dimpled form my Lillie bore. 
Lillie smiles and mamma ponders; 
Body sleeps while spirit wanders 
Like some bird that tries lls pinions, 
Stealing from its prison strong— 
From the door that sleep is guarding, 
Back to realms of light and song. 
