Pictures of Memory (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Samuel Francis Woolard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133171706X ISBN 13: 9781331717065

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2017

Synopsis

Excerpt from Pictures of Memory

The Baby

Where did you come from baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into the here.

Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.

What makes the light in them sparkle and spin?
Some of the starry spikes left in.

Where did you get that little tear?
I found it waiting when I got here.

What makes your forehead so smooth and high?
A soft hand stroked it as I went by.

What makes your cheek like a warm white rose?
Something better than anyone knows.

Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss?
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.

Where did you get that pearly ear?
God spoke and it came out to hear.

Where did you get those arms and hands?
Love made itself into hooks and bands.

Feet, whence did you come, you darling things?
From the same box as the cherub's wings.

How did they all just come to be you?
God thought about me, and so I grew.

But how did you come to us, you dear?
God thought of you, and so I am here. - George MacDonald

A Child's Laugh

Strike with hand of fire, O weird musician, thy harp strung with Apollo's golden hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles with symphonies sweet and dim, deft touches of the organ keys; blow, bugler, blow until the silver notes do touch and kiss the moonlight waves, and charm the lovers wandering midst the vine-clad hills: but know your sweetest strains are discords all, compared with childhood's happy laugh the laugh - that fills the eyes with light and every heart with joy.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 133171706X
• ISBN 13: 9781331717065
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 81