Charles Lamb

Parental Recollections

A child’s a plaything for an hour;
     Its pretty tricks we try
For that or for a longer space;
     Then tire, and lay it by.
 
 
But I knew one, that to itself
     All seasons could controul;
That would have mock’d the sense of pain
     Out of a grieved soul.
 
 
Thou, straggler into loving arms,
     Young climber up of knees,
When I forget thy thousand ways,
     Then life and all shall cease.
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