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First Line: In praise of little children I will say
Last Line: And left, o little child, its reflex there.
Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood


In praise of little children I will say
God first made man, then found a better way
For woman, but his third way was the best.
Of all created things, the loveliest
And most divine are children. Nothing here
Can be to us more gracious or more dear.
And though, when God saw all his works were
good,
There was no rosy flower of babyhood,
'Twas said of children in a later day
That none could enter Heaven save such as they.
The earth, which feels the flowering of a thorn,
Was glad, O little child, when you were born;
The earth, which thrills when skylarks scale the
blue,
Soared up itself to God's own Heaven in you;
And Heaven, which loves to lean down and to
glass
Its beauty in each dewdrop on the grass, --
Heaven laughed to find your face so pure and fair,
And left, O little child, its reflex there.




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