C is for Child

C is for Child written by William Henry Davies

From "A Poet's Alphabet", 1925

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<poem> See how her arms now rise and fall,

  See how, like wings, they beat the air:

An arm to balance either foot,

  She moves, half-fluttering, here and there.

And still those motions will suggest

  A different life that's left behind

In early days, remote and strange;

  Felt in that little unformed mind

For one short season, after birth - Before her feet are claimed by Earth.