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CHILD MOON by CARL SANDBURG

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE CHILD'S WONDER
Last Line: WITH BABBLINGS OF THE MOON ON HER LITTLE MOUTH.
Subject(s): CHILDREN; MOON; CHILDHOOD;

THE child's wonder
At the old moon
Comes back nightly.
She points her finger
To the far silent yellow thing
Shining through the branches
Filtering on the leaves a golden sand,
Crying with her little tongue, "See the moon!"
And in her bed fading to sleep
With babblings of the moon on her little mouth.



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