I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the breast of its mother; 
The sleeping mother and babe—hush’d, I study them long and long.

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Poet: Walt Whitman
Poem: 44. Mother and Babe.
Volume: Leaves of Grass
- 3. Calamus
Year: Published/Written in 1900

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