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children - letitia elizabeth landon - ghizela rowe lyrics

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a word will fill the little heart
with pleasure and with pride;
it is a harsh, a cruel thing
that such can be denied

and yet how many weary hours
those joyous creatures know;
how much of sorrow and restraint
they to their elders owe!

how much they suffer from our faults!
how much from our mistakes!
how often, too, mistaken zeal
an infant’s misery makes!

we overrule and overteach
we curb and we confine
and put the heart to school too soon
to learn our narrow line

no: only taught by love to love
seems childhood’s natural task;
affection, gentleness, and hope
are all its brief years ask

- ghizela rowe lyrics

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