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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CHILD, by WINIFRED LUCAS
First Line: Oh added being, fair and new
Last Line: Your robberies cease.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Oh added being, fair and new
Last Line: Your robberies cease.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
I
OH added being, fair and new,
And how, by you,
To man, to nature, will be paid
The difference made?
II
A need, a little theft, of sun,—
The debt begun!
A little shadow on the grass,—
But swift to pass.
III
A little silence from the day
You take away;
And, for the night, a little sleep
Receive and keep.
IV
To human care, that can but grant,
You whisper want.
And all the hard, indifferent days
Must find you praise.
V
But—in the heart your need befriends
The plunder ends.
But—in the heart you pay with peace
Your robberies cease.
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