Harriet Monroe, ed. (18601936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 191222. | | To a Child | By Florence K. Mixter |
| I YOU are my silent laughter; | |
You are my unshed tears; | |
You are the elfin wonder | |
Of my ecstasy and fears. | |
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You are my heart that dances; | 5 |
You are my soul that leaps. | |
You have hidden the key of the lonely room | |
Where my troubled spirit sleeps. | |
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II Dear changeling, how I love your smile! | |
Fleet as a timid fawn | 10 |
It breaks upon me suddenly | |
And with a flash is gone. | |
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Its hardly like a smile at all, | |
More like a blinding light | |
That darts across the starless sky | 15 |
A fire-fly of the night. | | | |
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