Robert Laurence Binyon - A Mother's Song lyrics

Over fast--closed baby eyes In the garden's golden air Blossom--white the bu*terflies Hover, hurry, part and pair, Sudden shinings, flown nowhere! Blue, above, the unbounded skies! Little one, O downy head, O fingers clasping, shaped and small, Laid in soft nest of your bed, How the trees are Titan--tall Over you that slumber, all Ignorant of hope and dread! O so small, and all around Life so vast works wonders new. Yet to you is set no bound What you shall desire and do, Find and fashion and hold true; Deeps you hold no thought can sound: You are sought by powers unknown; On your trembling heart--strings play Airs unheard, O little one! Whisperings of far away, Music made of day and day-- Lands of promise, all your own! Wide as heaven the secrecies You enfold: ev'n now, ev'n here, You presage infinities, While above in hope, in fear, My white wishes, far and near, Hover like the bu*terflies.