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THE CHILD'S SOUL WARD by SAMUEL DUNIEVITZ

First Line: A LITTLE CHILD SOUL / ONCE FORLORN
Last Line: "FROM THIS: ""CHILD'S SOUL WARD."
Subject(s): SINGING & SINGERS; SONGS;
A little child soul,
Once forlorn,
Searching for a heart --
To hide.

Found the rays
Of the sun leading
To the poet
To abide

Since then the lyric
Of the singer
Changed the note
To wonder song;

And never since then
Was heard but laughter
Of the bard
With child-soul young.

And old and gray
With age and years,
Became the singer
As time raced.

But never did
That child song leave,
That heart, that soul,
It once embraced.

And often wonder
Man and child
At the singer --
The gray old bard,
As the gay
And childish laughter
Heard is
From this: "Child's Soul Ward."



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