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