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The Crescent Moon(31)
2023-12-06THE WICKED POSTMAN WHY do you sit there on the floor so quiet and silent, tell me, mother dear? The rain is coming in through the open window, making ...
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The Crescent Moon(32)
2023-12-06THE HERO MOTHER, let us imagine we are travelling, and passing through a strange and dangerous country. You are riding in a palanquin and I am trottin...
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The Crescent Moon(33)
2023-12-06THE END IT is time for me to go, mother; I am going. When in the paling darkness of the lonely dawn you stretch out your arms for your baby in the bed...
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The Crescent Moon(34)
2023-12-06THE RECALL THE night was dark when she went away, and they slept. The night is dark now, and I call for her, "Come back, my darling; the world is...
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The Crescent Moon(35)
2023-12-06THE FIRST JASMINES AH, these jasmines, these white jasmines! I seem to remember the first day when I filled my hands with these jasmines, these white ...
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The Crescent Moon(36)
2023-12-06THE BANYAN TREE O YOU shaggy-headed banyan tree standing on the bank of the pond, have you forgotten the little child, like the birds that have nested...
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The Crescent Moon(37)
2023-12-06BENEDICTION BLESS this little heart, this white soul that has won the kiss of heaven for our earth. He loves the light of the sun, he loves the sight ...
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The Crescent Moon(38)
2023-12-06THE GIFT I WANT to give you something, my child, for we are drifting in the stream of the world. Our lives will be carried apart, and our love forgott...
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The Crescent Moon(39)
2023-12-06MY SONG THIS song of mine will wind its music around you, my child, like the fond arms of love. This song of mine will touch your forehead like a kiss...
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The Crescent Moon(40)
2023-12-06THE CHILD-ANGEL THEY clamour and fight, they doubt and despair, they know no end to their wranglings. Let your life come amongst them like a flame of ...