| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1071. The Child’s Wish Granted |
| | | By George Parsons Lathrop |
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| DO you remember, my sweet, absent son, | |
| How in the soft June days forever done | |
| You loved the heavens so warm and clear and high; | |
| And, when I lifted you, soft came your cry,— | |
| “Put me ’way up,—’way, ’way up in blue sky”? | 5 |
| I laughed and said I could not,—set you down, | |
| Your gray eyes wonder-filled beneath that crown | |
| Of bright hair gladdening me as you raced by. | |
| Another Father now, more strong than I, | |
| Has borne you voiceless to your dear blue sky. | 10 |
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