I. My heart leaps up when I behold So was it when my life began ; So be it when I shall grow old, The Child is Father of the Man; II. TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near me - do not take thy flight! A little longer stay in sight! Much converse do I find in Thee, Historian of my Infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart ! Dead times revive in thee: Thou bringest, gay Creature as thou art! A solemn image to my heart, My Father's Family! Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days, Together chased the Butterfly! Upon the prey: with leaps and springs I followed on from brake to bush; But she, God love her! feared to brush III. FORESIGHT, OR THE CHARGE OF A CHILD TO HIS YOUNGER THAT is work of waste and ruin I am older, Anne, than you. Pull the Primrose, Sister Anne! Here are Daisies, take your fill ; Make your bed, and make your bower; Primroses, the Spring may love them Withered on the ground must lie; God has given a kindlier power And for that promise spare the flower! IV. CHARACTERISTICS OF A CHILD THREE YEARS OLD. LOVING she is, and tractable, though wild; |