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Baloo, Loo, Lammy
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton E. Stevenson (1912)
Baloo, loo, lammy, now baloo, my dear,
Does wee lammy ken that its daddy's no here?
Ye're rocking full sweetly on mammy's warm knee,
But daddy's a-rocking upon the salt sea.
Now hushaby, lammy, now hushaby, dear;
Now hushaby, lammy, for mother is near.
The wild wind is raving, and mammy's heart's sair;
The wild wind is raving, and ye dinna care.
Sing baloo, loo, lammy, sing baloo, my dear;
Sing baloo, loo, lammy, for mother is here.
My wee bairnie's dozing, it's dozing now fine,
And O may its wakening be blither than mine!
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Nairne, Carolina. “Baloo, Loo, Lammy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/nairn/39/.
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Nairne, Carolina. “Baloo, Loo, Lammy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/nairn/39/.
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