This song was re-published by Boosey in the year following Sullivan's death with new words by Frederick E. Weatherley as My Child and I.

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I'd a dream to-night As I fell asleep - Oh! the touching sight Makes me still to weep - Of my little lad Gone to leave me sad; Aye, the child I had, But was not to keep. As in heaven high I my child did seek, There in train came by Children fair and meek; Each in lily white, With a lamp alight; Each was clear to sight, But they did not speak. Then, a little sad, Came my child in turn, But the lamp he had, Oh! it did not burn; He to clear my doubt Said, half turn'd about, "Your tears put it out. Mother, mother, Mother, never mourn."

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