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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO ANTHONY IDELER, by STELLA M. HOOGS
First Line: Could the master hand that fashioned thee
Last Line: Thou, too, adorns't a deathless page!
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Could the master hand that fashioned thee
Last Line: Thou, too, adorns't a deathless page!
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
Could the Master hand that fashioned thee,
O child of light and joyfulness,
Weary of a work so soon begun
And leave unwrought
A life decreed to be?
As soon we'd ask of mortal artist why
The creature of his inspiration
Decays not with the hoary years of time,
To droop at last,
With temporal things to die.
Thou little child,
The radiance of the Babe of Raphael's dream
Clings round thy memory's image;
Emblazoned on thy mother's heart,
Thou, too, adorns't a deathless page!
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