—Copyright by Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York, and used by kind permission.
SONG OF THE INDIAN MOTHER
By James Gowdy Clark
Gently dream, my darling child,
Sleeping in the lonely wild;
Would thy dreams might never know
Clouds that darken mine with woe;
Oh! to smile as thou art smiling,
All my hopeless hours beguiling
With the hope that thou mightst see