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# to a child
- URL: https://thedreampedlar.com/to-a-child/
- Published: 2018-12-20T16:45:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-15T16:45:42.000Z
- Description: 'To A Child', a poem by Christopher Morley
- Author: Anitha Krishnan
- Tags: life, unadulterated

As the year draws to a close, I bring to you a poem 'To a child' by Christopher Morley. A poem about the poetry that a child is ...

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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 unselfconscious as the bee-

And yet with lovely reason skilled  
Each day new paradise to build;  
Elate explorer of each sense,  
Without dismay, without pretense!

In your unstained transparent eyes  
There is no conscience, no surprise:  
Life's queer conundrums you accept,  
Your strange divinity still kept.

Being, that now absorbs you, all  
Harmonious, unit, integral,  
Will shred into perplexing bits,-  
Oh, contradictions of the wits!

And Life, that sets all things in rhyme,  
may make you poet, too, in time-  
But there were days, O tender elf,  
When you were Poetry itself!