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FOR A CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye to whom wealth lends wings
Last Line: One ineffable day!
Subject(s): Holidays


YE to whom wealth lends wings
To bear you from clime to clime,
To treasures of beautiful things --
Palaces, minsters sublime,
Snow mountain and pine-circled lake,
And the purple of Summer seas --
Think, think of poor children, and take
Compassion on these.

For in stifling courts they are pent
Thro' the fugitive freshness of June;
Not for them are her roses sent,
Nor the nightingales' passionate tune,
Nor the keen scent of newly mown hay,
Nor the flowing tide's blossom of yeast;
Let these poor rhymes secure them at least
One ineffable day!





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