Favorite Poems I Like: #1- “The Child In The Garden.”

This simple, yet complex poem, played on my heart-strings, because it is so true.

REFLECTIONS OF A MINDFUL HEART AND SOUL

When to the garden of untroubled thought

I came of late, and saw the open door,                                                    

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And wished again to enter, and explore

The sweet, wild ways with stainless bloom inwrought,

And bowers of innocence with beauty fraught,

It seemed some purer voice must speak before

I dared to tread that garden loved of yore,

That Eden lost unknown and found unsought.

Then just within the gate I saw a child,-

A stranger-child, yet to my heart most dear;

He held his hands to me, and softly smiled 

With eyes that knew no shade of sin or fear:

“Come in,” he said,“and play awhile with me;

I am the little  child…

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