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Boston Lullaby

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Baby's brain is tired of thinking         On the Wherefore and the Whence;     Baby's precious eyes are blinking         With incipient somnolence.     Little hands are weary turning         Heavy leaves of lexicon;     Little nose is fretted learning         How to keep its glasses on.     Baby knows the laws of nature         Are beneficent and wise;     His medulla oblongata         Bids my darling close his eyes.     And his pneumogastrics tell him         Quietude is always best     When his little cerebellum         Needs recuperative rest.     Baby must have relaxation,         Let the world go wrong or right.     Sleep, my darling, leave Creation         To its chances for the night.

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