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SIX WEEKS OLD by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: HE IS SO SMALL, HE DOES NOT KNOW
Last Line: AND DOES NOT CARE TO LEARN THE REST.
Subject(s): BABIES; INFANTS;
HE is so small, he does not know
The summer sun, the winter snow;
The spring that ebbs and comes again,
All this is far beyond his ken.

A little world he feels and sees:
His mother's arms, his mother's knees;
He hides his face against her breast,
And does not care to learn the rest.



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