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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MADONNA, by ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN
First Line: The child is the future, incarnate
Last Line: To the mother adoring her child!
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: The child is the future, incarnate
Last Line: To the mother adoring her child!
Subject(s): Mothers
THE child is the future, incarnate,
The spirit unfallen and free,
The spotless forerunner of manhood,
The type of a race that shall be,
O white is the soul new-created,
By the prayer of a mortal beguiled,
And the holiest thing under heaven
Is the innocent heart of a child.
And yet to no eye save the mother's
Life's difficult secret is plain;
She has sounded the deeps of creation,
She has passed through the furnace of pain;
Her soul is the soul of a virgin,
By the passions of earth undefiled,
And the angels in heaven do homage
To the mother adoring her child!
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