Sweet and Low

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1850) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A lullaby that calls the western wind home the way a mother calls a father back to a sleeping child.

Sweet and low, sweet and low,
 Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
 Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go,
Come from the dropping moon and blow,
 Blow him again to me;
While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps.…

Themes: new-baby