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 O, white innocence,
 That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide
  Thine awful and serenest read more 
 O, white innocence,
 That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide
  Thine awful and serenest countenance
   From those who know thee not! 
 E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
 That innocence can give,
  When its resistless accents flow
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 E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
 That innocence can give,
  When its resistless accents flow
   To bid affection live. 
 We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun,
 And bleat the one at th' other. What read more 
 We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun,
 And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed
  Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
   The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed
    That any did. 
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of read more
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it read more
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
 Hence, bashful cunning,
 And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!  
 Hence, bashful cunning,
 And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! 
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
 O God, keep me innocent; make others great!
 [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux 
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 O God, keep me innocent; make others great!
 [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux 
autres.] 
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.