Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE HUMAN TRINITY, by GRANVILLE LOWTHER


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THE HUMAN TRINITY, by                    
First Line: The sunshine reached across the space
Last Line: In father, childhood, motherhood.
Subject(s): Babies; Children; Fathers; Love; Mothers; Parents; Infants; Childhood; Parenthood


The sunshine reached across the space
And kissed my baby on the face
And painted it so rich a hue
That I stooped down and kissed her too.

Now little one, what makes you coo?
Did sunshine paint your two eyes blue?
What makes that curious little smile
And keeps you struggling all the while?

There now! what is it makes you weep?
What do you dream when you're asleep?
What makes you gaze and yawn and blink?
I wonder what you really think.

I wonder, will your life be blurred
By actions where I may have erred?
Or if some power could atone
For any wrongs I may have done.

I hope my life will be so true
That no reproach will come to you
Or sorrow with its awful load,
From reaping what your father sowed.

Your mother pure as pure can be,
Now stoops and kisses you and me,
As if that sunshine from above
Came to ignite our latent love.

Perhaps from many million years
Our race has come through toil and tears,
To demonstrate that God is good
In father, childhood, motherhood.





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