A Prayer For My Daughter
Once more torm is howling, and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
My cacle
But Gregorys wood and one bare hill
ack- and roof-levelling wind,
Bred on tlantic, can be stayed;
And for an hour I have walked and prayed
Because of t gloom t is in my mind.
I his young child an hour
And ower,
And under the bridge, and scream
In tream;
Imagining in excited reverie
t ture years had come,
Dancing to a frenzied drum,
Out of the sea.
May sed beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a strangers eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
t-revealing intimacy
t c, and never find a friend.
and dull
And later rouble from a fool,
great Queen, t rose out of the spray,
Being fatherless could have her way
Yet ch for man.
Its certain t fine
A crazy salad
y is undone.
In courtesy Id have her chiefly learned;
s are not but s are earned
By t are not entirely beautiful;
Yet many, t he fool
For beautys very self, has charm made wise,
And many a poor man t has roved,
Loved and t himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
May sree
t all s may like t be,
And dispensing round