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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FORTIFIED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: Little dear heart, tiny wonderer
Last Line: I but hope to share in serving!
Subject(s): Babies; Infants
First Line: Little dear heart, tiny wonderer
Last Line: I but hope to share in serving!
Subject(s): Babies; Infants
Little dear heart, tiny wonderer,
With round eyes that search clean through one,
Little tender-fisted sunderer
Of my old world and my new one,—
Whence the sunbeam warm that dances
In those mirthful baby glances?
If that other world endowed thee
With a soul of crystal clearness,
When our dullened earth has cowed thee
With its mortal burden's nearness,
Who am I to give thee training
To withstand a life's explaining?
Even now I see an answer
In the little arms upflinging,
In thy dimples, wee entrancer,
And thy blithesome, wordless singing.
Love and gentleness and joying
May withstand old Earth's annoying.
Though this life's thick fogs be clouding
Recollections of some other,
May no mist-bank e'er come crowding
'Twixt thee, wee one, and thy mother.
Hers the gifts for thy preserving:
I but hope to share in serving!
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