INNOCENCE

INNOCENCE

 

“Know you what it is to be a child.....an epitom of innocence? 

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.”