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F M L	A
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Living child or pictured cherub	B
Ne'er o'ermatched its baby grace	C
And the mother moving nearer	D
Looked it calmly in the face	C
Then with slight and quiet gesture	D
And with lips that scarcely smiled	E
Said A Portrait of my daughter	D
When she was a child	E
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Easy thought was hers to fathom	F
Nothing hard her glance to read	G
For it seemed to say No praises	H
For this little child I need	I
If you see I see far better	D
And I will not feign to care	J
For a stranger's prompt assurance	K
That the face is fair	J
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Softly clasped and half extended	L
She her dimpled hands doth lay	M
So they doubtless placed them saying	N
Little one you must not play	M
And while yet his work was growing	N
This the painter's hand hath shown	O
That the little heart was making	N
Pictures of its own	O
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Is it warm in that green valley	P
Vale of childhood where you dwell	A
Is it calm in that green valley	P
Round whose bournes such great hills swell	A
Are there giants in the valley	P
Giants leaving footprints yet	Q
Are there angels in the valley	P
Tell me I forget	Q
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Answer answer for the lilies	R
Little one o'ertop you much	S
And the mealy gold within them	T
You can scarcely reach to touch	S
O how far their aspect differs	U
Looking up and looking down	V
You look up in that green valley	P
Valley of renown	V
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Are there voices in the valley	P
Lying near the heavenly gate	W
When it opens do the harp strings	X
Touched within reverberate	Y
When like shooting stars the angels	Z
To your couch at nightfall go	A2
Are their swift wings heard to rustle	B2
Tell me for you know	A2
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Yes you know and you are silent	C2
Not a word shall asking win	D2
Little mouth more sweet than rosebud	L
Fast it locks the secret in	D2
Not a glimpse upon your present	C2
You unfold to glad my view	E2
Ah what secrets of your future	D
I could tell to you	E2
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Sunny present thus I read it	F2
By remembrance of my past	G2
Its to day and its to morrow	A2
Are as lifetimes vague and vast	G2
And each face in that green valley	P
Takes for you an aspect mild	E
And each voice grows soft in saying	N
Kiss me little child	E
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As a boon the kiss is granted	L
Baby mouth your touch is sweet	H2
Takes the love without the trouble	B2
From those lips that with it meet	H2
Gives the love O pure O tender	D
Of the valley where it grows	I2
But the baby heart receiveth	J2
MORE THAN IT BESTOWS	I2
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Comes the future to the present	C2
Ah she saith too blithe of mood	K2
Why that smile which seems to whisper	D
'I am happy God is good '	-
God is good that truth eternal	B2
Sown for you in happier years	L2
I must tend it in my shadow	A2
Water it with tears	M2
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Ah sweet present I must lead thee	J2
By a daylight more subdued	K2
There must teach thee low to whisper	D
'I am mournful God is good '	-
Peace thou future clouds are coming	N
Stooping from the mountain crest	N2
But that sunshine floods the valley	J2
Let her let her rest	N2
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Comes the future to the present	C2
Child she saith and wilt thou rest	N2
How long child before thy footsteps	O2
Fret to reach yon cloudy crest	N2
Ah the valley angels guard it	F2
But the heights are brave to see	J2
Looking down were long contentment	C2
Come up child to me	J2
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So she speaks but do not heed her	D
Little maid with wondrous eyes	P2
Not afraid but clear and tender	D
Blue and filled with prophecies	R
Thou for whom life's veil unlifted	C2
Hangs whom warmest valleys fold	C2
Lift the veil the charm dissolveth	J2
Climb but heights are cold	C2
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There are buds that fold within them	T
Closed and covered from our sight	C2
Many a richly tinted petal	B2
Never looked on by the light	C2
Fain to see their shrouded faces	H
Sun and dew are long at strife	Q2
Till at length the sweet buds open	R2
Such a bud is life	Q2
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When the rose of thine own being	N
Shall reveal its central fold	C2
Thou shalt look within and marvel	B2
Fearing what thine eyes behold	C2
What it shows and what it teaches	H
Are not things wherewith to part	C2
Thorny rose that always costeth	J2
Beatings at the heart	C2
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Look in fear for there is dimness	H
Ills unshapen float anigh	Q2
Look in awe for this same nature	D
Once the Godhead deigned to die	C2
Look in love for He doth love it	C2
And its tale is best of lore	S2
Still humanity grows dearer	D
Being learned the more	S2
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Learn but not the less bethink thee	J2
How that all can mingle tears	H
But his joy can none discover	D
Save to them that are his peers	H
And that they whose lips do utter	D
Language such as bards have sung	T2
Lo their speech shall be to many	J2
As an unknown tongue	T2
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Learn that if to thee the meaning	N
Of all other eyes be shown	O
Fewer eyes can ever front thee	J2
That are skilled to read thine own	O
And that if thy love's deep current	C2
Many another's far outflows	H
Then thy heart must take forever	D
LESS THAN IT BESTOWS	H

Jean Ingelow

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