Eager to help you learn and understand.
What floods of happiness the day insures,
While each new knowledge is becoming yours!
So, let me firmly take away from you
The things you so persistently would view;
And when you stretch the hand that tells so much,
Rap your soft knuckles and exclaim, “Don’t touch!”
I’ll tell you what you ought to learn, and so,
A mother’s instinct-guided love I’ll show.
An ordinary child at best,