A Mother's Song

By Francis Ledwidge

Little ships of whitest pearl

With sailors who were ancient kings,

Come over the sea when my little girl

Sings.

And if my little girl should weep,

Little ships with torn sails

Go headlong down among the deep

Whales.

Poem dated: November, 1916.This poem taken from "Last Songs" by Francis Ledwidge, Published by Herbert Jenkins, London 1918 page 35checked and verified JS