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HER GIFT by BURGES JOHNSON

First Line: HER EYES, HER MOUTH, HER CHIN, SO STRANGELY SMALL
Last Line: TAKE MIGHTY HOLD UPON TWO HUMAN HEARTS.
Subject(s): BABIES; BLESSINGS; CHILDREN; PARENTS; INFANTS; CHILDHOOD; PARENTHOOD;

Her eyes, Her mouth, Her chin, so strangely small,
Her very hands, in such frail likeness made,
That one caress it seems might crush them all,
And so I gaze, and wonder, half afraid.

So wee a gift—yet wealth of many lands
Could never buy it in the richest marts!
So frail a gift—and yet those baby hands
Take mighty hold upon two human hearts.



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