Nurse's Song

• When the voices of children are heard on the green, and whisperings are in the dale
• The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind, my face turns green and pale
• Then come home my children [command, compare to Inocence]
• The dews of the night arise [sexual connotations]
• Your spring and your day are wasted in play [industrial revolution?]
• Themes


  Parenting, authority figures, oppression, sexual experience
• Big message

  Warns against shortening period of innocence, criticises oppressive one-sided parenting, children should have a voice