Poems (Piatt)/Volume 1/Into the World and Out
INTO THE WORLD AND OUT.
Into the world he looked with sweet surprise.The children laughed so when they saw his eyes.
Into the world a rosy hand in doubtHe reached;—a pale hand took one rosebud out.
"And that was all?"—quite all, it may be. . . . ButThe children cried so when his eyes were shut.