Your friends shall be the Tall Wind, <br />The River and the Tree; <br />The Sun that laughs and marches, <br />The Swallows and the Sea. <br /> <br />Your prayers shall be the murmur <br />Of grasses in the rain; <br />The song of wildwood thrushes <br />That makes God glad again. <br /> <br />And you shall run and wander, <br />And you shall dream and sing <br />Of brave things and bright things <br />Beyond the swallow's wings. <br /> <br />And you shall envy no man, <br />Nor hurt your heart with sighs, <br />For I will keep you simple <br />That God may make you wise.<br /><br />Fannie Stearns Davis<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-a-child-3/
