Happy hearts and happy faces,

Happy play in grassy places,

That was how, in ancient ages,

Children grew to kings and sages.

Robert Louis Stevenson

APRIL TWENTY-NINTH

That wide-gazing calm which makes us older human

beings, with our inward turmoil, feel a certain

awe in the presence of a little child, such as we feel

before some quiet majesty or beauty in the earth or sky.

George Eliot

APRIL THIRTIETH

Her, by her smile, how soon the stranger knows,

How soon by his the glad discovery shows,

As to her lips she lifts the lovely boy,

What answering looks of sympathy and joy!

He walks, he speaks. In many a broken word

His wants, his wishes and his griefs are heard.

And ever, ever to her lap he flies,

When rosy sleep comes on with sweet surprise.

Samuel Rogers

MAY

MAY FIRST

The child whose face illumes our way,

Whose voice lifts up the heart that hears,

Whose hand is as the hand of May.

Swinburne

MAY SECOND

Baby's skies are mother's eyes,

Mother's eyes and smiles together

Make the Baby's pleasant weather.

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