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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE OF CHILDREN, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER
First Line: The love of children lives; it never dies
Last Line: The dusty aisleways wake to old lullabies!
Subject(s): Children; Love; Childhood
First Line: The love of children lives; it never dies
Last Line: The dusty aisleways wake to old lullabies!
Subject(s): Children; Love; Childhood
The Love of Children lives; it never dies;
Deathless as Love's own self, it gleams and shines
Like a soft lamp of stars set in the pines,
Aglow so long as stars glow in the skies!
A boon of dew, it falls where slumbering lies
The seed-bud of a thousand-flowered rose;
A breeze benign, o'er arid Earth it blows;
A cooling hand, it soothes the World's tired eyes.
Sweetner of Centuries, Egypt knew it, Rome,
And India encompassed round with dreams;
It broods today by dim Assyrian streams,
Streams dim with unplumbed woe; where broken dome
And ivied silence crown the Cyclades,
The dusty aisleways wake to old lullabies!
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