Relationships
To a Child
From Poetical Works, ed. Knight (1896), vol. VIII
Relationships
Small service is true service while it lasts:
Of humblest Friends, bright Creature! scorn not one!
The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun.
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