Child life: a collection of poems . BOSTON AND NEW YORKHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Entered according to Act of Congress. In the year 1871, by JAMES R. OSGOOD & COMPANY. la the Office of the Librarian o Congress, at Washington, D, C. V THE LITTLE PEOPLE. A DREARY place would be this earth,Were there no little people in it ; The song of life would lose its mirth,Were there no children to liegin it ; No little forms, like buds to grow. And make the admiring ireart surrender ; No little hands on bieast and brow. To keei) the thrilling love-chords tender. The sterner souls would grow more stern,Unfeel
Child life: a collection of poems . BOSTON AND NEW YORKHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Entered according to Act of Congress. In the year 1871, by JAMES R. OSGOOD & COMPANY. la the Office of the Librarian o Congress, at Washington, D, C. V THE LITTLE PEOPLE. A DREARY place would be this earth,Were there no little people in it ; The song of life would lose its mirth,Were there no children to liegin it ; No little forms, like buds to grow. And make the admiring ireart surrender ; No little hands on bieast and brow. To keei) the thrilling love-chords tender. The sterner souls would grow more stern,Unfeeling nature more inhuman. And man to stoic coldness turn. And woman would be less than woman. Lifes song, indeed, would lose its there no babies to begin it ; A doleful place this world would be,Wero there no little people in it.
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