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(1868) [MARC] Author: Fredrika Bremer Translator: Emily Nonnen With: Charlotte Bremer
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POEMS. 411

Pure, gentle ones, I turn with fond emotion

To you, and would to all the world express,
That all I have I owe to your devotion, —

My mite of strength, my hope, my earthly bliss.

Oh, it is hard to feel such loving debt,

Which by our deeds can ne’er be canceled quite ;
To throw it off I wrote a book, — and yet

That pleasant burden never grew more light.

Sisters, if in these pages, now to you
Inscribed, you find some balm for tears that fall
From sorrow’s eye, some thoughts both pure and true,
From my good angels’ hearts I’ve called them all.

*THE CRADLE OF LOVE.

Rock, rock, cradle of Love!

Flow, O Song, with thy silvery strain ;

Throbbing hearts shall its sweetness prove,

Soothe this earth in her tumult and pain:
Rock, rock, cradle of Love!

Lull the memories of bitter wrong ;

Bid each tender and holy dream —

Herald of truth — round the slumberer throng ;

Launch the keel, but on Love’s broad stream,
Guided by Hope, the immortal, the strong.

Thoughts soar upward to realms above ;
Fight, strong arm, in our stalwart North;
Champion of truth and of right thou shalt prove ;
Over all this tumultuous earth
Flow, O Song, let thy strains go forth:

Rock, rock, cradle of Love!

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