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To My Three Children - ZaunköniG - 15.07.2007 To My Three Children Arthur, William, Anne Belle My children are my own interpreters Of this strange modern world of ours, That seems to yield no keys, no pass, no powers Into my hands, unless perchance the spurs That now and then I loan, and there occurs So grave a doubt, such hounding of the hours, I choose to trust the child, that never cowers That I may share his lot, whate'er incurs. One sweeps the univers, unseen but heart; One loafs along the field, the stream, the height; One delves into the mind's rich vein of ore. And Mother-like I pray some magic word Of mine be near, if tears should blind their sight, And may my love illumine more and more. |