CHILD MOON

THE child's wonder
At the old moon
Comes back nightly.
She points her finger
To the far silent yellow thing
Shining through the branches
Filtering on the leaves a golden sand,
Crying with her little tongue, See the moon!
And in her bed fading to sleep
With babblings of the moon on her little mouth.

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