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ROADS TO CHILDHOOD
Ireland.” And then Allingham’s “Fairies” trooped forth, and from “The Songs of Innocence” William Blake’s “Piper,” “The Laughing Song,” and “The Lamb”; Wordsworth’s “March,” Celia Thaxter’s “Spring,” Miss Mulock’s “Green Things Growing,” Emily Dickinson’s “The Grass.” We did not hesitate to share Mr. Yeats’s own:
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
We have never hesitated to share a poem we feel we would have liked as a child. We recall how still the room grew as we read:
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.