Quote#Nature
A baby was sleeping
Quote bySamuel Lover · 1797–1868
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Angel's Whisper, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping, For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.
— Samuel Lover
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