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A child was playing on a summer strand That fringed the wavelets of a sunny sea; The mother looked in love. “Now build,” said she, “Your splendid golden castles where you stand; But when the wave has beaten all to sand, You must go home.” “Ah, not so soon,” said he. And now the night has darkened out his glee, And sad-eyed Grief has grasped him by the hand. No more the years shall find him free and wild And madly merry as a bright brave bird: For earth has nothing like the home he craves And pauseless Time is beating bitter waves On all his palaces. He waits the word Away beyond the blue, “Come home, my child.”
A child was playing on a summer strand That fringed the wavelets of a sunny sea; The mother looked in love. “Now build,” said she, “Your splendid golden castles where you stand; But when the wave has beaten all to sand, You must go home.” “Ah, not so soon,” said he. And now the night has darkened out his glee, And sad-eyed Grief has grasped him by the hand. No more the years shall find him free and wild And madly merry as a bright brave bird: For earth has nothing like the home he craves And pauseless Time is beating bitter waves On all his palaces. He waits the word Away beyond the blue, “Come home, my child.”
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- R. Hodgson (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 267 · printed citation: R. Hodgson, 1879. · compiler notes excluded
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