 | [Poems by Duganne in] The floral gift, from nature and the heart |  |
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CHILDISHNESS.
A fairy form is frolicking
In beauty round me now,
With cheek of sunbright loveliness
And fair and beaming brow.
He sporteth now around my feet,
In gambols free and wild—
A thing of youth and gentleness,
A gladsome, winsome, child!
In beauty round me now,
With cheek of sunbright loveliness
And fair and beaming brow.
He sporteth now around my feet,
In gambols free and wild—
A thing of youth and gentleness,
A gladsome, winsome, child!
He spyeth now a butterfly,
And boundeth o'er the green—
The daisies and the buttercups
He heedeth not, I ween—
His little hands he clappeth,
By the winged sprite beguiled,
And laugheth in his gladsomeness,
The happy, thoughtless child.
And boundeth o'er the green—
The daisies and the buttercups
He heedeth not, I ween—
His little hands he clappeth,
By the winged sprite beguiled,
And laugheth in his gladsomeness,
The happy, thoughtless child.
Duganne.
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