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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A CHILD WITH EYES, by MARK VAN DOREN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Footprints now on bread or cake
Last Line: There are more if there is any!
First Line: Footprints now on bread or cake
Last Line: There are more if there is any!
Footprints now on bread or cake
Merely are what a mouse can make,
You cannot open any door
And find a brownie on the floor,
Or, in the window where he went,
A fork, a spoon, a finger-dent.
Farmers climbing from the mow
Suprise no imp beneath a cow --
Milking madly! Breakfast bells
Are never tinkled from dry wells,
The commonwealth is gone that shut
Its felons in a hazel-nut.
Forests are no longer full
Of fairy women who can pull
A leaf around them, and can dance
Upon the very breath of plants.
River-rocks are bare of men
Who wring their beards and dive again. . . .
Is there nothing left to see?
There is the squirrel. There is the bee.
There is the chipmunk on the wall,
And the first yellow every fall.
There is the humming bird, the crow.
There is the lantern on the snow.
There is the new-appearing corn.
There is the colt a minute born . . .
Run and see, and say how many --
There are more if there is any!
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