To bear, to nurse, to rear,
To watch and then to lose,
To see my bright ones disappear,
Drawn up like morning dews.


"Songs of Seven. Seven times Six", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Jean Ingelow Quotes

To bear, to nurse, to rear, To watch and then to lose, To see my bright ones disappear, Drawn up like morning dews.

To bear, to nurse, to rear, To watch and then to lose, To see my bright ones disappear, Drawn up like morning dews.

To bear, to nurse, to rear, To watch and then to lose, To see my bright ones disappear, Drawn up like morning dews.

To bear, to nurse, to rear, To watch and then to lose, To see my bright ones disappear, Drawn up like morning dews.