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A gentle boy, with soft and silken locks / A dreamy boy, with brown and tender eyes, / A castle-builder, with his wooden blocks, / And towers that touch imaginary skies.
A fearless rider on his father's knee, / An eager listener unto stories told / At the Round Table of the nursery, / Of heroes and adventures manifold.
There will be other towers for thee to build; / There will be other steeds for thee to ride; / There will be other legends, and all filled / With greater marvels and more glorified.
Build on, and make thy castles high and fair, / Rising and reaching upward to the skies; / Listen to voices in the upper air, / Nor lose thy simple faith in mysteries.