913. A Child by Richard Watson Gilder. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

913. A Child

By Richard Watson Gilder


HER voice was like the song of birds;
Her eyes were like the stars;
Her little waving hands were like
Birds’ wings that beat the bars.

And when those waving hands were still,—	5
Her soul had fled away,—
The music faded from the air,
The color from the day.