Love-Songs of Childhood

<p><SPAN name="link2H_4_0031" id="link2H_4_0031"></SPAN></p> <h2> SWING HIGH AND SWING LOW </h2> <p>Swing high and swing low<br/> While the breezes they blow&mdash;<br/> It's off for a sailor thy father would go;<br/> And it's here in the harbor, in sight of the sea,<br/> He hath left his wee babe with my song and with me:<br/> "Swing high and swing low<br/> While the breezes they blow!"<br/> Swing high and swing low<br/> While the breezes they blow&mdash;<br/> It's oh for the waiting as weary days go!<br/> And it's oh for the heartache that smiteth me when<br/> I sing my song over and over again:<br/> "Swing high and swing low<br/> While the breezes they blow!"<br/> "Swing high and swing low "&mdash;<br/> The sea singeth so,<br/> And it waileth anon in its ebb and its flow;<br/> And a sleeper sleeps on to that song of the sea<br/> Nor recketh he ever of mine or of me!<br/> "Swing high and swing low<br/> While the breezes they blow&mdash;<br/> 'T was off for a sailor thy father would go!"<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />