_By
Alice Meynell_
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_E.P. Dutton & Company, New York._
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“_Behold the Child among his new-born blisses,
A six years’ darling of a pigmy size,_
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_Fretted with sallies of his mother’s kisses,
With light upon him from his father’s eyes._”