CHILDHOOD.
If childhood were not; in the world, But-only men and women grown;-' No beby-locks in'tendrils curled, .'No ;bftby'blossoms blown*. Though men 1 wero stronger, women fairer, ' juid, nearer, all, delights, in reach, And; verse and music uttered rarer ■ Tones, of a godlike, speech; the utmost -life of life's best hours v,J!ouxi(l,_ as it. cannot now' End, words: desert sands -were sweet as flowers ■And .flowers could sing like birds. . ' Bu£. chiildron never heard them, norcr _Tliey felt, a child's foot , leap and run. Has were, a drearier star than ever Yet looked upon the suri. ■ ' ; —Algernon Swinburne. ,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 229, 20 June 1908, Page 11
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98CHILDHOOD. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 229, 20 June 1908, Page 11
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