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Peak And Puke

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Title:     Peak And Puke
Author: Walter De la Mare [More Titles by De la Mare]

From his cradle in the glamourie
They have stolen my wee brother,
Housed a changeling in his swaddlings
For to fret my own poor mother.
Pules it in the candle light
Wi' a cheek so lean and white,
Chinkling up its eyne so wee
Wailing shrill at her an' me.
It we'll neither rock nor tend
Till the Silent Silent send,
Lapping in their awesome arms
Him they stole with spells and charms,
Till they take this changeling creature
Back to its own fairy nature --
Cry! Cry! As long as may be,
Ye shall ne'er be woman's baby!





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Walter De la Mare's poem: Peak And Puke

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