Innocence: A Perspective for Intelligent Reading
(Bright Wings: Children's Books welcomes Anna Reynold's wise reflection on Mirette on the Highwire by Emily Arnold McCully) Certain books...
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward springs
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Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings