Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHILD, CHILD, by SARA TEASDALE


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First Line: Child, child, love while you can
Last Line: Only through love will you enter heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Love


Child, child, love while you can
The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man;
Never fear though it break your heart --
Out of the wound new joy will start;
Only love proudly and gladly and well,
Though love be heaven or love be hell.

Child, child, love while you may,
For life is short as a happy day;
Never fear the thing you feel --
Only by love is life made real;
Love, for the deadly sins are seven,
Only through love will you enter heaven.








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