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Playing in the fire and twilight together,
My little son and I,
Suddenly—woefully—I stoop to catch him
"Try, mother, try

Ten years together without yet a cloud They seek each other's eyes at intervals Of gratefulness to firelight and four walls For love's obliteration of the crowd
Serenely and perennially endowed And bowered as few may be, their joy recalls No ...