Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — For a Child. [ARTICLE]

For a Child.

His mind has neither need nor powers to know The foolish things that men call right and wrong; For him the streams of pleasant lovewine flow. For him the mystic sleep compelling song. Through love he rule* hta love-made universe. And sees with sight by ignorance made keen, The fauns and elves whom older eyes disperse, Great Fan, and all the fairies with their queen. Kind gods, I pray, bestow on him this dole, Not wisdom, wealth, nor mighty deeds to do. But let him keep his happy pagan soul, The poet vision, simple, free, and true, To hunt the rainbow gold and phantom lights. And meet with dryads on the wooded heights.