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Poems That Every Child Should Know
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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name,
And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go,
Others will punctually come forever and ever.


Listener up there! What have you to confide in me?
Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening.
(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)
Who has done his day's work? Who will soonest be through with his supper?
Who wishes to walk with me?


I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.