Harold at Two Years Old
Open your gates for him
Eager and new!
All the world waits for him;
What will he do?
Dear incompletenesses
Blossoming hours!
Feed him with sweetnesses!
Heap him with flowers!
See how he crumbles them,
Shouts like a man!
Tosses and tumbles them
Wide as he can!
Vain is admonishment,
Sermons in vain:—
Gleeful astonishment!
At it again!
Wildness of babyhood!
Passion of play!
Who but a baby would
Wish it away?
Rapt from the Mystery,
Reft from the whole,
Eager and new!
All the world waits for him;
What will he do?
Dear incompletenesses
Blossoming hours!
Feed him with sweetnesses!
Heap him with flowers!
See how he crumbles them,
Shouts like a man!
Tosses and tumbles them
Wide as he can!
Vain is admonishment,
Sermons in vain:—
Gleeful astonishment!
At it again!
Wildness of babyhood!
Passion of play!
Who but a baby would
Wish it away?
Rapt from the Mystery,
Reft from the whole,
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