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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SERENITY OF CHILDHOOD, by JOHN LEYDEN Poet's Biography
First Line: In the sweet morn of life, when health & joy
Last Line: How oft shall my sad heart your soothing scenes renew!
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: In the sweet morn of life, when health & joy
Last Line: How oft shall my sad heart your soothing scenes renew!
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
IN the sweet morn of life, when health and joy
Laugh in the eye, and o'er each sunny plain
A mild celestial softness seems to reign,
Ah! who could dream what woes the heart annoy?
No saddening sighs disturb the vernal gale
Which fans the wild-wood music on the ear;
Unbathed the sparkling eye with pity's tear,
Save listening to the aged soldier's tale,
The heart's slow grief, which wastes the child of wo,
And lovely injured woman's cruel wrong,
We hear not in the sky-lark's morning song,
We hear not in the gales that o'er us blow,
Visions devoid of wo which childhood drew,
How oft shall my sad heart your soothing scenes renew!
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