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First Line: A child beside a hamlet's fount at play
Last Line: A brightness, born and gone with infant mirth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Girls


A CHILD beside a hamlet's fount at play,
Her fair face laughing at the sunny day;
A gush of waters tremulously bright,
Kindling the air to gladness with their light;
And a soft gloom beyond of summer trees,
Darkening the turf; and, shadowed o'er by these,
A low, dim, woodland cottage -- this was all!
What had the scene for memory to recall
With a fond look of love? What secret spell
With the heart's pictures made its image dwell?

What but the spirit of the joyous child,
That freshly forth o'er stream and verdure smiled,
Casting upon the common things of earth
A brightness, born and gone with infant mirth!





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