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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE INTERPRETER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot talk the grown-up way
Last Line: I understand them all quite well.
Subject(s): Children; Talk; Childhood
First Line: I cannot talk the grown-up way
Last Line: I understand them all quite well.
Subject(s): Children; Talk; Childhood
I cannot talk the grown-up way,
To tell them all I've thought and planned;
And nearly all that grown-ups say
I do not plainly understand.
But every little murmuring breeze,
Or sounds that whisper in a shell,
Or leaves that rustle on the trees,—
I understand them all quite well.
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