The Child in the Street
FOR A VOLUME OF DOUBLE AUTHORSHIP
Even as tender parents lovingly
Send a dear child in some true servant's care
Forth in the street, for larger light and air,
Feeling the sun her guardian will be,
And dreaming with a blushful pride that she
Will earn sweet smiles and glances everywhere,
From loving faces; and that passers fair
Will bend, and bless, and kiss her, when they see,
And ask her name, and if her home is near,
And think, " O gentle child, how blessed are they
Whose twofold love bears up a single flower! "
And so with softer musing move away, —
We send thee forth, O Book, thy little hour —
The world may pardon us to hold thee dear.
Even as tender parents lovingly
Send a dear child in some true servant's care
Forth in the street, for larger light and air,
Feeling the sun her guardian will be,
And dreaming with a blushful pride that she
Will earn sweet smiles and glances everywhere,
From loving faces; and that passers fair
Will bend, and bless, and kiss her, when they see,
And ask her name, and if her home is near,
And think, " O gentle child, how blessed are they
Whose twofold love bears up a single flower! "
And so with softer musing move away, —
We send thee forth, O Book, thy little hour —
The world may pardon us to hold thee dear.
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