Page:MU KPB 009 The Springtide of Life Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne.pdf/163



Stars in heaven are many,
 * Suns in heaven but one:

Nor for man may any
 * Star supplant the sun.

Many a child as joyous
 * As our far-off king

Meets as though to annoy us
 * In the paths of spring.

Sure as spring gives warning,
 * All things dance in tune:

Sun on Easter morning,
 * Cloud and windy moon,

Stars between the tossing
 * Boughs of tuneful trees,

Sails of ships recrossing
 * Leagues of dancing seas;

Best, in all this playtime,
 * Best of all in tune,

Girls more glad than Maytime,
 * Boys more bright than June;