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THE LESSON
Bring your lovely heads to me,
Children, and your lovely eyes!
Bend above this board to see
What I have of true surprise.
Children, and your lovely eyes!
Bend above this board to see
What I have of true surprise.
Every day I try to teach
Something to your growing wit,
That by learning you may reach
Wonder's heart, and beat with it.
Something to your growing wit,
That by learning you may reach
Wonder's heart, and beat with it.
Here I show a child of wheat,
Packed with root and skyward sprout,
Waiting in his small retreat
Signals to be up and out!
Packed with root and skyward sprout,
Waiting in his small retreat
Signals to be up and out!
Stores to feed him as he grows
Round his points of life are spread,
Placed for him by One who knows
How to make His creatures' bread.
Round his points of life are spread,
Placed for him by One who knows
How to make His creatures' bread.
Though his cradle holds him yet,
Not asleep the baby lies;
All his darkling hopes are set
Firmly on the coloured skies.
Not asleep the baby lies;
All his darkling hopes are set
Firmly on the coloured skies.
Now I split our simple toy,
Showing by what marvellous plan
Wheat's delicious baby-boy
Changes slowly to a man!
Showing by what marvellous plan
Wheat's delicious baby-boy
Changes slowly to a man!
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Millions of his brethren bold
Far afield in sun and dew
Make, by changing green to gold,
Crumb and crust to give to you.
Far afield in sun and dew
Make, by changing green to gold,
Crumb and crust to give to you.
Bend above the board to see
What I have of rare surprise.
Lend your lovely heads to me,
Children, and your lovely eyes!
What I have of rare surprise.
Lend your lovely heads to me,
Children, and your lovely eyes!
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