Tis music of thy voice and a child’s smile in verse
The speaker praises a beloved child, likening their voice to music and their smile to summer sunshine. Yet a melancholy thought intrudes that time marks the child for mortality, with shadows of night beneath the placid brow and hidden mortal fate to come.
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