Sue alike for your regard;

And grateful you for each; the mean, the rare

To your frank childishness as welcome are.

Tossing your naked limbs on the glad sod

You know not you will be—perhaps are—a God!

Yea, Child, who, than you all love,

More Divine in Heav’n above!

Ev’n when babyhood becomes boyhood, still

Nature spreads her bounty in sheer good-will.

Honey from the sturdy oak, like dew, drips;