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Looking Backward
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Hubert Parry
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O my child love My love of long ago How great was life When thou and I were young ! The world was boundless For we did not know; A life, a poem For we had not sung Now is the world grown small And we thereon Fill with mere care and toil Each narrow day; Elves from the wood Dreams from my heart are gone And heaven is bare For God is far away Canst thou not come And touch my hand again And I look on thee With grave and inocent eyes ? Thy God has many angels; I would fain Woo for one hour One angel from the skies O my child love Come back comе back to me And, laughing, lead me From thе toil and din ! Lay on my heart Those small hands tenderly And let the whole world in
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