Forever Child

By the world never cease to be amazed, On your journey of days dark and bright; Where’er you’ll be by destiny placed, Lose not your childish wonder on that night, In a forest winking with fireflies’ light. In sundry cares our days are often lost, Our eyes too blinkered to beauty behold; Remember as you’re by rough seas tossed, To thrill, son, to the miracles that unfold, Let not the wide-eyed child in you grow old.