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Letitia Elizabeth Landon - ChildrenLetitia Elizabeth Landon - Children
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A word will fill the little heart With pleasure and with pride; It is a harsh, a cruel thing, That such can be denied. And yet how many weary hours Those joyous creatures know; How much of sorrow and restraint They to their elders owe! How much they suffer from our faults! How much from our mistakes! How often, too, mistaken zeal An infant`s misery makes! We overrule and overteach, We curb and we confine, And put the heart to school too soon, To learn our narrow line. No: only taught by love to love, Seems childhood`s natural task; Affection, gentleness, and hope, Are all its brief years ask.
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