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Milk RiverThe Milk River is an important (if you live in Montana) tributary of the Missouri River. It was given this name by Captain Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition who wrote in his journal:"the water of this river possesses a peculiar whiteness, being about the colour of a cup of tea with the admixture of a tablespoonfull of milk. from the colour of its water we called it Milk river."
the dark unseen, leaving the track of his song across the hush of
the sugar-cane field, hidden among the shadows of the banana and
jack-fruit trees.
I stopped for a moment in my lonely way under the starlight, and
countless homes furnished with cradles and beds, mothers' hearts
knows nothing.html">nothing of its value for the world.
On the seashore of endless worlds children.html">children.html">children.html">children meet.
The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is
with shouts and dances.
They build their houses with sand, and they play.html">play with empty
smilingly float them on the vast deep. Children have their play
Pearl-fishers dive for pearls, merchants sail in their ships,
not for hidden treasures, they know.html">know not how to cast nets.
The sea.html">sea surges up with laughter, and pale gleams the smile.html">smile of the
children, even like a mother while rocking her baby.html">baby.html">baby.html">baby's cradle.
sea-beach.
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. Tempest roams
death is abroad and children play. On the seashore of endless
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it comes? Yes, there is a rumour.html">rumour that it has its dwelling where,
glow-worms, there hang two shy buds of enchantment. From there
anybody know where it was born.html">born? Yes, there is a rumour that a
vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the
lips when he sleeps.
The sweet, soft freshness that blooms on baby's limbs--does
was a young girl it lay pervading her heart in tender and silent
baby's limbs.
If baby only wanted to, he could fly up to heaven this moment.
It is not for nothing that he does not leave us.
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