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To the Same Friend / Children (as such forgive them) have I known, / Ever in their own eager pastime bent / To make the incurious bystander, intent / On his own swarming thoughts, an interest own; / Too fearful or too fond to play alone.
Do thou, whom light in thine own inmost soul / (Not less thy boast) illuminates, control / Wishes unworthy of a man full-grown.
What though the holy secret which moulds thee / Mould not the solid Earth? though never Winds / Have whisper'd it to the complaining Sea, / Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?
To its own impulse every creature stirs: / Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers!