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 Alas! regardless of their doom,
 The little victims play;
  No sense have they of ills to come,
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 Alas! regardless of their doom,
 The little victims play;
  No sense have they of ills to come,
   Nor care beyond to-day. 
 My lovely living Boy,
 My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.
   - Guillaume read more 
 My lovely living Boy,
 My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.
   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 
 The children in Holland take pleasure in making
 What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.  
 The children in Holland take pleasure in making
 What the children in England take pleasure in breaking. 
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly read more
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
 'Tis not a life,
 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.  
 'Tis not a life,
 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away. 
 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: 
thy children like olive plants read more 
 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: 
thy children like olive plants round about thy table. 
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, 
I thought as a read more 
 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, 
I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away 
childish things. 
 [Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio 
doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call read more 
 [Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio 
doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call 
changelings.