Religion
The Baby’s Palm
From Songs for All Seasons, and Other Poems (1901)
Religion
A work of art is the baby’s arm
And fairer yet is the shell-pink palm;
But beautiful truth no honest toil,
Can ever that dainty surface soil:
Each cross it carries, each blow for right,
Will serve to make it, and keep it, white.
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MLA
Bass, Cora C. “The Baby’s Palm.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bass_cc/132/.
Chicago
Bass, Cora C. “The Baby’s Palm.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bass_cc/132/.
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