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A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving?
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe— Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew.
An’ the Gobble-uns’ll git you Ef you Don’t Watch Out!
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.
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue, Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.
A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death?
Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery Fed with cold and usurous hand?
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened. And voices soft and sweet.
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child’s.
These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children—?
