THE MAD MOTHER.
her eyes are wild, her head is bare,
t her coal-black hair,
y stain,
And she main.
She has a baby on her arm,
Or else she were alone;
And underneatack warm,
And on tone,
Salked and sung the woods among;
And it ongue.
quot;S babe! t I am mad,
But nay, my is far too glad;
And I am happy when I sing
Full many a sad and doleful thing:
t fear!
I pray thee have no fear of me,
But, safe as in a cradle, here
My lovely baby! t be,
to too much I owe;
I cannot hee any woe.
A ?re hin my brain;
And in my head a dull, dull pain;
And ?endishree,
my breasts, and pulled at me.
But t of joy;
It came at once to do me good;
I tle boy,
My little boy of ?esh and blood;
O sigo see!
For he was here, and only he.
Suck, little babe, oh suck again!
It cools my blood; it cools my brain;
they
Drahe pain away.
Otle hand;
It loosens somet my c;
About t tight and deadly band
I feel ttle ?ngers pressd.
tree;
It comes to cool my babe and me.
Otle boy!
t thers only joy;
And do not dread the waves below,
he sea-rocks edge we go;
t work me harm,
Nor leaping torrents whey howl;
the babe I carry on my arm,
he saves for me my precious soul;
t am I;
it me my s babe would die