Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
BRITISH
Are you crying my little one, footsore and weary?
I must tramp on through the winter night dreary,
Fall asleep, pretty baby, warm on my shoulder;
White the snow falls on a pone me, colder and colder.
You are my dearest one, and I have no other;
Sleep warm and soft in the arms of your mother,
Sleep soft, my darling, my trouble and treasure;
Dream of pretty things, dream of your pleasure.
BRITISH
Are you crying my little one, footsore and weary?
I must tramp on through the winter night dreary,
Fall asleep, pretty baby, warm on my shoulder;
White the snow falls on a pone me, colder and colder.
You are my dearest one, and I have no other;
Sleep warm and soft in the arms of your mother,
Sleep soft, my darling, my trouble and treasure;
Dream of pretty things, dream of your pleasure.