To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible
To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
Germ of new life, whose powers expanding slow
For many a moon their secret course have run,
Till nature bids thee burst thy prison bars,
Drop the dry husk, and spring, a tender shoot,
Into the keen keen air, and lift thy face
To the bright sun with wonder:
Yet a while — the toiling months are not yet spent;
A little longer, and the time shall come
When thou shalt quit thy dark abode and see
This bright and busy world which thou hast not yet learnt to know.
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Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, 1825.
