Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="MAGDALEN" id="MAGDALEN"></SPAN>MAGDALEN</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">My father took me by the hand</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">And led me home again;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">(He brought me in from sorrow</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">As you'd bring a child from rain).</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The child's place at the hearth-stone,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The child's place at the board,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And the picture at the bed's head</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Of wee ones wi' the Lord.</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">It's just a child come home he sees</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">To nestle at his arm;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">(He brought me in from sorrow</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">As you'd bring a child from harm).</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And of the two of us who sit</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">By hearth and candle-light,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">There's just one hears a woman's heart</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Break&mdash;breaking in the night.</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />