"Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman"

In the line "I'll run down" in "Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman," "down" is sung with a descending melisma (Eb C Bb), musically giving a sense either of movement or of the word's meaning.  "While" in the lines "No one here / Say we waited our while" is sung with a melisma (C Bb), musically giving a sense of duration.