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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GIFT OF INSIGHT, by NORA F. MCCORMICK
First Line: Strange thoughts came to me as I watched
Last Line: His superscription in the humblest face.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Strange thoughts came to me as I watched
Last Line: His superscription in the humblest face.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
Strange thoughts came to me as I watched a child
Rub from a pence, the mould, by years defiled.
He patient strove, till from the dingy red,
Shone forth imperial Caesar's head --
I thought, had we like children, the insight fine
To scent the primal with ne'er chart nor line,
We had the further grasp of things unseen --
The power, in every form, however mean,
God's hidden image to discern, and trace
His superscription in the humblest face.
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