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(1863)Fatima Meer, Higher than Hope (1988)The New York Times (September 6, 1983)United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 14th-century English proverb

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Shee said, Lullabye, my owne deere child!
Lullabye, deere child, deere!
I wold thy father were a king,
Thy mother layd on a beere!

'Peace now,' he said, 'good Faire Ellen,
And be of good cheere, I thee pray,
And the bridall and the churching both,
They shall bee upon one day.'

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Unknown. Child Waters (l. 157–164). . .

Oxford Book of English Traditional Verse, The. Frederick Woods, ed. (1983) Oxford University Press.

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