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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE NEW BABE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poet's Biography
First Line: The babe is the beautifully cunning dust that desires and breathes
Last Line: Of the babe in the storm and sun of the nourishing years.
Subject(s): Babies; Infants
First Line: The babe is the beautifully cunning dust that desires and breathes
Last Line: Of the babe in the storm and sun of the nourishing years.
Subject(s): Babies; Infants
THE BABE is the beautifully cunning dust that desires and breathes,
And through the soft pink of his body sing limpid sweet tides of life,
And at the light he is staring with wide blue eyes, unquestioning.
Oh, unawakened wonder! unopened blossom!
There I leaned, even so in my marvelous flesh,
But I and this body of mine were also as a pellet of dust
Dropped into gulfs of bathing light;
I, flower, drenched in the sunlight of the spirit,
In the spacious morning of the soul...
Divine is the unfolding and wonderful the opening petals
Of the babe in the storm and sun of the nourishing years.
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