Updated September 23, 2019 | Infoplease Staff A Chill What can lambkins do All the keen night through? Nestle by their woolly mother The careful ewe. What can nestlings do In the nightly dew? Sleep beneath their mother's wing Till day breaks anew. If in a field or tree There might only be Such a warm soft sleeping-place Found for me! Christina Rossetti: Somewhere or Other The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems, 1866 Christina Rossetti: Child's Talk in April .com/t/poetry/rossetti/a-chill.html .com/t/poetry/rosetti/a-chill.html .com/t/poetry/rossetti/a-chill.html Sources Our Common Sources
