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HAPPY CHILDHOOD.
Oh keep the children in your anns, They'll not be children long! Too soon they'll hear the world's alarms And join the maddening throng. The child now clinging to your neck, The little lad upon yonr knee, May suffer from life's war and wreck When from your arms they're free Then kiss their eyelids gently down To soft arid sweet repose, No dreams come to them of the frown, No fear of future woes; But all the night gay visons bright Dance round each childish head, From light to dusk, from dusk to light , In fairy lands they tread. Oh, happy they who all the day Can laugh and dance and sing ! Fresh dewdrops of a morn in May, Fair buds just flowering! When they are men and women grown We'll miss them din and rack, And would give the world, wero it our \~ own, " ■ To have the music back.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4580, 8 September 1883, Page 1
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154Select Poetry. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4580, 8 September 1883, Page 1
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