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INFANCY.
A forest in an acorn lies asleep,And sunrise waits below the morning star
To flood with spreading light the world afar;
All wisdom in an infant's mind lies deep
Buried and hid, till He Whose angels keep
Charge of the little ones, shall touch and wake
His child to knowledge, life, and power;—shall make
The seed a fruit for husbandmen to reap.
But what the seed is to the full-grown tree,
Or what the child is to the perfect man,
The same is man to what he yet shall be
When Heaven matures the Almighty Father's plan;
His roots are in the past eternity,
His fruit the eternity to come shall see.
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