Impromptu, In Reply To A Lady, Who Asked The Author What Childhood Resembled.

How like is childhood to the lucid tide
That calmly wanders thro' the mossy dell,
Sweeps o'er the lily by the margin's side,
And, as it kisses, murmurs out, Farewell!

John Carr

English

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