<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357270" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Child</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The greatest poem ever known <br>Is one all poets have outgrown: <br>The poetry, innate, untold, <br>Of being only four years old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still young enough to be a part <br>Of Nature's great impulsive heart, <br>Born comrade of bird, beast, and tree <br>And unselfconscious as the bee-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet with lovely reason skilled <br>Each day new paradise to build; <br>Elate explorer of each sense, <br>Without dismay, without pretense!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In your unstained transparent eyes <br>There is no conscience, no surprise: <br>Life's queer conundrums you accept, <br>Your strange divinity still kept.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Being, that now absorbs you, all <br>Harmonious, unit, integral, <br>Will shred into perplexing bits,- <br>Oh, contradictions of the wits!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Life, that sets all things in rhyme, <br>may make you poet, too, in time- <br>But there were days, O tender elf, <br>When you were Poetry itself!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christopher+Morley">Christopher Morley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357270" data-title="To A Child de Christopher Morley" data-description="The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. Still young enough to be a part Of Nature's great impulsive heart, Born comrade of bird, beast, and tree And unselfconsci..."></div> </div> </div>

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