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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The Worlds Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship.
1904.
Poems of Home: I. About Children
Children
Walter Savage Landor (17751864)
C
HILDREN
are what the mothers are.
No fondest fathers fondest care
Can fashion so the infant heart
As those creative beams that dart,
With all their hopes and fears, upon
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The cradle of a sleeping son.
His startled eyes with wonder see
A father near him on his knee,
Who wishes all the while to trace
The mother in his future face;
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But t is to her alone uprise
His waking arms; to her those eyes
Open with joy and not surprise.
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