Poems (Radford)/Shall I make a Song for You
To my Children
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Shall I make a song for you, Children dear,Not too hard or long for you, Just as clearAs your lives which opened so, A while ago?
How shall I find any word Old or new,That the wise earth has not heard Ages through,Ever since her ways grew sweet With little feet?
How you bless my day and hour, She can say,As the sweet and spotless flower Of her mayLies in fullest bloom at rest, Upon her breast.
All the happy service done, Well she knows,All the longing, and the one Prayer that goesTrembling through the unknown years, For you my dears.
How I love you, she repeats, How rejoice,All my singing she completes, For my voice,Of the song in her great heart, Is but a part.