Collected Poems: With Autobiographical and Critical Fragments By Frederic W. H. Myers: Edited by his Wife Eveleen Myers |
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HAROLD AT TWO YEARS OLD
Open your gates for him
Eager and new!
All the world waits for him;
What will he do?
Eager and new!
All the world waits for him;
What will he do?
Dear incompletenesses
Blossoming hours!
Feed him with sweetnesses!
Heap him with flowers!
Blossoming hours!
Feed him with sweetnesses!
Heap him with flowers!
See how he crumbles them,
Shouts like a man!
Tosses and tumbles them
Wide as he can!
Shouts like a man!
Tosses and tumbles them
Wide as he can!
Vain is admonishment,
Sermons in vain;—
Gleeful astonishment!
At it again!
Sermons in vain;—
Gleeful astonishment!
At it again!
Wildness of babyhood!
Passion of play!
Who but a gaby would
Wish it away?
Passion of play!
Who but a gaby would
Wish it away?
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Rapt from the Mystery,
Reft from the whole,
Hast thou a history,
Innocent soul!
Reft from the whole,
Hast thou a history,
Innocent soul!
Gaze we with wondering,
Baby, on thee;—
Sped o'er what sundering
Strait of the sea?
Baby, on thee;—
Sped o'er what sundering
Strait of the sea?
Borne to us hitherward,
Ah! from what shore?
Voyaging whitherward,
Child, evermore?
Ah! from what shore?
Voyaging whitherward,
Child, evermore?
Little he'll tell for us!
Nothing he knows!
Clear like a bell for us
Laughs as he goes!
Nothing he knows!
Clear like a bell for us
Laughs as he goes!
Powers supersensible
Breathe thro' the boy
Incomprehensible
Promise of joy!
Breathe thro' the boy
Incomprehensible
Promise of joy!
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