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Maybe a few more short ones.

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Here's a little poem.

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I don't think it
amounts to much,

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but some of my litter
of readers numbering 77

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across the country.

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I think Auden was wrong, though.

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He said late in the
'30s when, of course,

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everything was depressing
in America and especially

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in cocktail lounges
on 52nd Street

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where he spent all his time.

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But he said the only people
that read me are pimply

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young men in cafeterias.

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I don't-- I hope I
don't believe that.

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Here's a-- this is a lullaby,
oddly enough, occasioned

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by the fact that years ago my
daughter said to me you spend

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a lot of time
writing, but you never

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write anything for me,
which is the wonderful logic

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of childhood I guess.

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This is called just
"Lullaby for a Daughter."

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Not to be under any occasion
read to a young child I

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don't suppose.

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"Go to sleep.

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Night is a coal pit
full of black water.

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Night's a dark cloud
full of warm rain.

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Go to sleep.

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Night is a flower
resting from bees.

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Night's a green sea
swollen with fish.

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Go to sleep.

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Night is a white
moon riding her mare.

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Night's a bright sun
burned to black cinder.

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Go to sleep.

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Night's come, cat's day, owl's
day, star's feast of praise,

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moon to reign over her
sweet subject, dark."

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