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THE CHILD READING THE BIBLE.
"A dancing shape, an image gay,
To haunt, to startle, to waylay.
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A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller between life and death."
Wordsworth.
I saw him at his sport erewhile,
The bright exulting boy,
Like summer's lightning came the smile
Of his young spirit's joy;
A flash that wheresoe'er it broke,
To life undreamt-of beauty woke.
