MY beautiful! For beautiful thou art <br />To me thy father, as the morning light <br />Which makes all common objects fresh and bright, <br />Yea gives them out of the dun void to start <br />As they were newly fashion’d from the Night! <br />For long there was a darkness round my heart, <br />Until thy mother made her life a part <br />Of mine, to pierce it with Love’s genial might— <br />The Aurora she and the young Morning thou <br />Of a new era in my worldly way! <br />Whence it behoves me heedfully to plough <br />The future for thy sake and for the vow <br />That I have made, to make thee (if I may) <br />A Man right worthy of our Australia.<br /><br />Charles Harpur<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-my-first-born/
