Poem by George Darley

The Gambols of Children

Down the dimpled greensward dancing,
Bursts a flaxen-headed bevy,—
Bud-lipt boys and girls advancing,
Love's irregular little levy.

Rows of liquid eyes in laughter,
How they glimmer, how they quiver!
Sparkling one another after,
Like bright ripples on a river.

Tipsy band of rubious faces,
Flushed with Joy's ethereal spirit,
Make your mocks and sly grimaces
At Love's self, and do not fear it. 

1. Epigram - Written in an Album
2. Lenimina Laborum. 41. Winter
3. Lenimina Laborum. 3. Heroa
4. Lenimina Laborum. 27. The Free-Booter
5. My Own Epitaph

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