IF childhood were not in the world,
But only men and women grown;
No baby-locks in tendrils curled,
No baby-blossoms blown;
Though men were stronger, women fairer,
And nearer all delights in reach,
And verse and music uttered rarer
Tones of more godlike speech;
Though the utmost life of life-s best hours
Found, as it cannot now find, words;
Though desert sands were sweet as flowers
And flowers could sing like birds,
But children never heard them, never
They felt a child-s foot leap and run:
This were a drearier star than ever
Yet looked upon the sun.
The Salt Of The Earth
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Poem topics: child, childhood, children, music, star, sun, world, sweet, speech, reach, verse, desert, baby, life, never, women, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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