{"id":651,"date":"2005-12-20T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2013-07-03T14:49:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T18:49:42","slug":"the-childrens-hour-h-w-longfellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"The Children’s Hour, H W Longfellow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the poem that inspired the title for this blog.
\nI was first introduced to it through the writings of Doug Phillips at Vision Forum<\/a>, specifically the book Poems for Patriarchs<\/em> which I warmly recommend.<\/p>\n

Between the dark and the daylight,
\nWhen the night is beginning to lower,
\nComes a pause in the day’s occupations,
\nThat is known as the Children’s Hour.<\/p>\n

I hear in the chamber above me
\nThe patter of little feet,
\nThe sound of a door that is opened,
\nAnd voices soft and sweet.<\/p>\n

From my study I see in the lamplight,
\nDescending the broad hall stair,
\nGrave Alice, and laughing Allegra,
\nAnd Edith with golden hair.<\/p>\n

A whisper, and then a silence:
\nYet I know by their merry eyes
\nThey are plotting and planning together
\nTo take me by surprise.<\/p>\n

A sudden rush from the stairway,
\nA sudden raid from the hall!
\nBy three doors left unguarded
\nThey enter my castle wall!<\/p>\n

They climb up into my turret
\nO’er the arms and back of my chair;
\nIf I try to escape, they surround me;
\nThey seem to be everywhere.<\/p>\n

They almost devour me with kisses,
\nTheir arms about me entwine,
\nTill I think of the Bishop of Bingen
\nIn his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!<\/p>\n

Do you think, o blue-eyed banditti,
\nBecause you have scaled the wall,
\nSuch an old mustache as I am
\nIs not a match for you all!<\/p>\n

I have you fast in my fortress,
\nAnd will not let you depart,
\nBut put you down into the dungeon
\nIn the round-tower of my heart.<\/p>\n

And there will I keep you forever,
\nYes, forever and a day,
\nTill the walls shall crumble to ruin,
\nAnd moulder in dust away!<\/p>\n

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the poem that inspired the title for this blog. I was first introduced to it through the writings of Doug Phillips at Vision Forum, specifically the book Poems for Patriarchs which I warmly recommend. Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day’s …<\/p>\n

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