TO A CHILD
By Aline Kilmer.
I know you are too dear to stay, You are so exquisitely sweet; My lonely house will thrill some day To echoes of your eager-feet. I hold your words within my heart, So few, so infinitely dear; Watching your fluttering hands I start At the corroding touch of fear. • A faint, unearthly music rings From you to heaven—it is not far ! A mist about your beauty clings Like a thin cloud before a star. My heart shall keep the child I knew, When you are really gone from me, And spend its life remembering you As shells remember the lost sea.
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New Zealand Tablet, 25 April 1918, Page 11
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107TO A CHILD New Zealand Tablet, 25 April 1918, Page 11
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