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Blessings on the hand of woman! Angels guard her strength and grace; In the cottage, palace, hovel,— O! no matter where the place. Would that never storms assailed it, Rainbows ever gently curled; For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. Blessings on the hand of woman! Fathers, sons and daughters cry; And the sacred song is mingled With the worship in the sky,— Mingles where no tempest darkens, Rainbows evermore are curled; For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
Blessings on the hand of woman! Angels guard her strength and grace; In the cottage, palace, hovel,— O! no matter where the place. Would that never storms assailed it, Rainbows ever gently curled; For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. Blessings on the hand of woman! Fathers, sons and daughters cry; And the sacred song is mingled With the worship in the sky,— Mingles where no tempest darkens, Rainbows evermore are curled; For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- John Gray
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 428; printed byline: John Gray; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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