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TO A CHILD by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE

Poet Analysis

First Line: IF BY ANY DEVICE OR KNOWLEDGE
Last Line: COMPLETER WHILST INCOMPLETE.
Subject(s): CHILDREN; LOVE; CHILDHOOD;
IF by any device or knowledge
The rosebud its beauty could know,
It would stay a rosebud for ever,
Nor into its fulness grow.

And if thou could'st know thy own sweetness
O little one, perfect and sweet!
Thou would'st be child for ever;
Completer whilst incomplete.



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