May 10, 2011 (innocence)

Innocence

“Know you what it is to be a child?
It is to be something very different
from the man of to-day.
It is to have a spirit
yet streaming from the waters of baptism;
it is to believe in love,
to believe in loveliness,
to believe in belief;
it is to be so little that the elves
can reach to whisper in your ear;
it is to turn pumpkins into coaches,
and mice into horses,
lowness into loftiness,
and nothing into everything,
for each child has
its fairy godmother in its own soul.”
- Francis Thompson