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CHILD'S PLAY by MILDRED FOCHT

First Line: ON THE GRASS SAT TWO-YEARS-OLD
Last Line: "DEAD AND GONE AWAY."
Subject(s): CHILDREN; PLAY; CHILDHOOD;

On the grass sat Two-years-old:
Through the leaves a spot of gold
Danced upon her small dark head,
Two-years-old was very still;
Only to herself she said
In the way that children will,
Something in a chanting round,
Fascinated by the sound.

Curiously I strained my ears;
Then I could not see for tears,
What the baby said was this,
Making of the words a play,
@3"He is dead, my father is,
Dead and gone away;
He is dead, my father is,
Dead and gone away."@1



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