Envoi [Child, Do You Love The Flower]

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Title:     Envoi [Child, Do You Love The Flower]
Author: Walter De la Mare [More Titles by De la Mare]

Child, do you love the flower
Ashine with colour and dew
Lighting its transient hour?
So I love you.

The lambs in the mead are at play,
'Neath a hurdle the shepherd's asleep;
From height to height of the day
The sunbeams sweep.

Evening will come. And alone
The dreamer the dark will beguile;
All the world will be gone
For a dream's brief while.

Then I shall be old; and away:
And you, with sad joy in your eyes,
Will brood over children at play
With as loveful surmise.

[The end]
Walter De la Mare's poem: Envoi [Child, Do You Love The Flower]

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