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Children

The genius of a child can repair
The ruin that dark love has made
So among children be no grief afraid
Of the taloned dove that dreams no delicate prayer.

Victory in Beauty's eyes. O tremble
All who her passion-parlour enter
Spring does not follow after Beauty's winter
But among children love is no mean gamble.

§ In line 2, 'grim' is scribbled above 'dark'.

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