“Mother, oh mother, I’m hungry!
Give me some bread or I shall die!”
“Just wait! Just wait, my dear child!
Tomorrow we shall hurry to harvest!”
And when the grain was harvested,
the child still cried out:
“Mother, oh mother, I’m hungry!
Give me some bread or I shall die!”
“Just wait! Just wait, my dear child!
Tomorrow we shall hurry and go threshing!”
And when the grain was threshed,
the child still cried out:
“Mother, oh mother, I’m hungry!
Give me some bread or I shall die!”
“Just wait! Just wait, my dear child!
Tomorrow we shall hurry and bake!”
And when the bread was baked,
the child lay on the funeral bier!
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