—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