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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ENVOY (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Child, do you love the flower
Last Line: With as loveful surmise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: Child, do you love the flower
Last Line: With as loveful surmise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Child, do you love the flower
Shining with colour and dew
Lighting its transient hour?
So I love you.
The lambs in the mead are at play,
'Neath a hurdle the shepherd's asleep,
From height to height of the day
The sunbeams sweep.
Evening will come. And alone
The dreamer the dark will beguile;
All the world will be gone
For a dream's brief while.
Then I shall be old; and away:
And you, with sad joy in your eyes,
Will brood over children at play
With as loveful surmise.
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