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C IS FOR CHILD by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: SEE HOW HER ARMS NOW RISE AND FALL
Last Line: BEFORE HER FEET ARE CLAIMED BY EARTH.
Subject(s): CHILDREN; CHILDHOOD;
See how her arms now rise and fall,
See how, like wings, they beat the air:
An arm to balance either foot,
She moves, half-fluttering, here and there.

And still those motions will suggest
A different life that's left behind
In early days, remote and strange;
Felt in that little unformed mind
For one short season, after birth --
Before her feet are claimed by Earth.



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