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When Letty had scarce passed her third glad year, And her young artless words began to flow, One day we gave the child a coloured sphere Of the wide earth, that she might mark and know, By tint and outline, all its sea and land. She patted all the world; old empires peeped Between her baby fingers; her soft hand Was welcome at all frontiers. How she leaped And laughed and prattled in her world-wide bliss; But when we turned her sweet unlearnèd eye On our own isle, she raised a joyous cry— “Oh! yes, I see it, Letty’s home is there!” And, while she hid all England with a kiss, Bright over Europe fell her golden hair.
When Letty had scarce passed her third glad year, And her young artless words began to flow, One day we gave the child a coloured sphere Of the wide earth, that she might mark and know, By tint and outline, all its sea and land. She patted all the world; old empires peeped Between her baby fingers; her soft hand Was welcome at all frontiers. How she leaped And laughed and prattled in her world-wide bliss; But when we turned her sweet unlearnèd eye On our own isle, she raised a joyous cry— “Oh! yes, I see it, Letty’s home is there!” And, while she hid all England with a kiss, Bright over Europe fell her golden hair.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- Charles Tennyson Turner (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 327 · printed citation: Charles Tennyson Turner. · compiler notes excluded
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