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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHILD'S PLAY, by MILDRED FOCHT
First Line: On the grass sat two-years-old
Last Line: "dead and gone away."
Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood
First Line: On the grass sat two-years-old
Last Line: "dead and gone away."
Subject(s): Children; Play; Childhood
On the grass sat Two-years-old:
Through the leaves a spot of gold
Danced upon her small dark head,
Two-years-old was very still;
Only to herself she said
In the way that children will,
Something in a chanting round,
Fascinated by the sound.
Curiously I strained my ears;
Then I could not see for tears,
What the baby said was this,
Making of the words a play,
"He is dead, my father is,
Dead and gone away;
He is dead, my father is,
Dead and gone away."
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