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Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
The Stolen Child (1886)
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.
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