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Lettered inside image: "A CRADLE SONG | Sweet dreams form a shade, | O'er my lovely infants head. | Sweet dreams of pleasant streams, | By happy silent moony beams | Sweet sleep with soft down. | Weave thy brows an infant crown. | Sweet sleep Angel mild, | Hover o'er my happy child. | Sweet smiles in the night; | Hover over my delight. | Sweet smiles Mothers smiles | All the livelong night beguiles. | Sweet moans, dovelike sighs. | Chase not slumber from thy eyes. | Sweet moans sweeter smiles. | All the dovelike moans beguiles. | Sleep sleep happy child. | All creation slept and smil'd. | Sleep sleep. happy sleep. | While o'er thee thy mother weep | Sweet babe in thy face. | Holy image I can trace. | Sweet babe once like thee. | Thy maker lay and wept for me | Wept"; Lettered on verso, inside image: "Wept for me for thee for all. | When he was an infant small. | Thou his image ever see. | Heavenly face that smiles on thee. | Smiles on thee on me on all. | Who became an infant small. | Infant smiles are his own smiles. | Heaven & earth to peace beguiles"