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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE [OR, A] PICTURE OF AN INFANT PLAYING NEAR A PRECIPICE, by LEONIDAS OF ALEXANDRIA Poet's Biography
First Line: While on the [or, a] cliff with calm delight she kneels
Last Line: And the fond boy springs back to nestle there.
Variant Title(s): A Mother's Strategum
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: While on the [or, a] cliff with calm delight she kneels
Last Line: And the fond boy springs back to nestle there.
Variant Title(s): A Mother's Strategum
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
WHILE on the cliff with calm delight she kneels,
And the blue vales a thousand joys recall,
See, to the last, last verge her infant steals!
O, fly -- yet stir not, speak not, lest it fall. --
Far better taught, she lays her bosom bare,
And the fond boy springs back to nestle there.
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