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There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon and received
 * with wonder, pity, love, or dread, that object he
 * became,

And that object became part of him for the day, or a
 * certain part of the day, or for many years, or
 * stretching cycles of years.

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and
 * white and red clover, and the song of the phœbe-bird,

And the Third Month lambs, and the sow's pink-faint
 * litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf,

And the noisy brood of the barn-yard, or by the mire
 * of the pond-side,

And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below
 * there—and the beautiful curious liquid,

And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads—
 * all became part of him.

The field-sprouts of Fourth Month and Fifth Month
 * became part of him,

Winter-grain sprouts, and those of the light-yellow
 * corn, and the esculent roots of the garden,

And the apple-trees covered with blossoms, and the
 * fruit afterward, and wood-berries, and the
 * commonest weeds by the road;