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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHILDHOOD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poet's Biography
First Line: How I could see through and through you!
Last Line: But a joy within guides you.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Childhood
First Line: How I could see through and through you!
Last Line: But a joy within guides you.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Childhood
HOW I could see through and through you!
So unconscious, tender, kind,
More than ever was known to you
Of the pure ways of your mind.
We who long to rest from strife
Labour sternly as a duty;
But a magic in your life
Charms, unknowing of its beauty.
We are pools whose depths are told;
You are like a mystic fountain,
Issuing ever pure and cold
From the hollows of the mountain.
We are men by anguish taught
To distinguish false from true;
Higher wisdom we have not;
But a joy within guides you.
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