Where I Would Sleep
Marie Hedderwick
Browne
Browne, Marie Hedderwick
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In the public domain
Poem signed M. Hedderwick Browne.
Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that Browne was paid 10s 6d for the poem (NLS Dep 341/371). (AC)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
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Not in a crowded City of the Dead,
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Where I Would Slee
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Not in a crowded City of the Dead,
Set ’mid a living city’s ceaseless roar,
Would I lay down my tired heart and head
When Life’s perplexed, troubled dream is o’er ;
But I would choose a little grass-grown bed
In some old kirkyard by a lonely shore,
Where, as I lay in Death’s dear, dreamless sleep,
Like an unwearied mother would the sea—
The sleepless sea—her long watch o’er me keep ;
And, sweet as my dead mother’s song to me,
Soothing me into slumber, yet more deep,
The waves eternal lullaby would be.
M. Hedderwick Browne
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