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LITTLE DAVID by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE MOTHER OF THE LITTLE BOY THAT
Last Line: IN VOICELESS JOY -- THE LITTLE BOY THAT SLEEPS.
Subject(s): CHILDREN; MOTHERS; SLEEP; CHILDHOOD;
THE mother of the little boy that sleeps
Has blest assurance, even as she weeps:
She knows her little boy has now no pain --
No further ache, in body, heart or brain;
All sorrow is lulled for him -- all distress
Passed into utter peace and restfulness. --
All health that heretofore has been denied --
All happiness, all hope, and all beside
Of childish longing, now he clasps and keeps
In voiceless joy -- the little boy that sleeps.



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