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 Praise meet for a child is unmeet for an elder whose winters and springs are nine: What song may have strength in its wings to expand them, or light in its eyes to shine, That shall seem not as weakness and darkness if matched with the theme I would fain make mine?

The round little flower of a face that exults in the sun- shine of shadowless days Defies the delight it enkindles to sing of it aught not unfit for the praise Of the sweetest of all things that eyes may rejoice in and tremble with love as they gaze.