LX_F24 Arts & Crafts oak rocking cradle

Arts & Crafts oak rocking cradle
Panelled and pegged with painted angels
and poem:
"The angels are stooping above your bed
They are wary of trooping with the whimpering dead
God’s laughing in heaven to see you so good
The Shining Seven are gay with his mood
I kiss you I kiss you my pidgeon my own
Ah how I shall miss you when you are grown"
A cradle song from The Rose published 1893
By William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Circa 1895



Height 95cm Width 103cm Depth 47cm

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