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Response to "Where did you get your eyes so blue?

from ilza (ilza@pobox.com)
THE BABY

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere into the here. Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through What makes the like in them sparkle and spin? Some of the starry spikes left in Where did you get that little tear? I found it waiting when I got here. What makes your forehead so smooth and high? A soft hand stroked it as I went by. What makes your cheek like a warm white rose? Something better than any one knows. Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? Three angels gave me at once a kiss. Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke, and it came out to hear. Where did you get those arms and hands? Love made itself into hooks and bands. Feet, whence did you come, you darling things? From the same box as the cherubs' wings. How did they all just come to be you? God thought about me, and so I grew. But how did you come to us, you dear? God thought of you, and so I am here.

George MacDonald

George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish preacher, poet, novelist, fantasist, expositor, and public figure who was most well known for his children's books-At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, and fantasies-Lilith and Phantastes. ............ rgds, ilza

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