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O! how I love the prattling of that child, Frisking so blithely in its nurse’s hand! Fair as her face who first in Eden smiled, Ere blissful innocence had left the land! Thy dimpled cheeks remind me of a time, When first I ventured on life’s thorny way! May no false joys consume thy early prime, No friend mislead thee, and no friend betray; Thy bark, like mine, is on a rocky sea; For life’s a voyage far from shore to shore, No resting-place, unless thine anchor be The hope of glory when the course is o’er; Blest hope for thee, just entering into bloom, Thrice blessed hope for me just hast’ning to the tomb.
O! how I love the prattling of that child, Frisking so blithely in its nurse’s hand! Fair as her face who first in Eden smiled, Ere blissful innocence had left the land! Thy dimpled cheeks remind me of a time, When first I ventured on life’s thorny way! May no false joys consume thy early prime, No friend mislead thee, and no friend betray; Thy bark, like mine, is on a rocky sea; For life’s a voyage far from shore to shore, No resting-place, unless thine anchor be The hope of glory when the course is o’er; Blest hope for thee, just entering into bloom, Thrice blessed hope for me just hast’ning to the tomb.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- J. Mayne (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 115 · printed citation: J. Mayne · subject: CHILDHOOD—INFANCY
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