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LOVE'S LANGUAGE by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE

Poet Analysis

First Line: THEIR LITTLE LANGUAGE THE CHILDREN
Last Line: WHICH IS HIDDEN WITH LOVE AND THEE.
Subject(s): LANGUAGE; LOVE - NATURE OF; WORDS; VOCABULARY;

THEIR little language the children
Have, on the knee as they sit;
And only those who love them
Can find the key to it.

The words thereof and the grammar
Perplex the logician's art;
But the heart goes straight with the meaning
And the meaning is clear to the heart.

So thou, my Love, hast a language
That, in little, says all to me: --
But the world cannot guess the sweetness
Which is hidden with Love and thee.



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