 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 页
...little joy To know I'm farther off from heav'n Than when I was a boy. THOMAS HOOD ENGLISH (1799-1845) The Children's Hour Between the dark and the daylight,...the chamber above me The patter of little feet, THE CYCLES The sound of a door that is opened, OF LIFE And voices soft and sweet. 106 \ From my study I... | |
 | Russell Kirk - 2004 - 444 页
...might as well recite aloud, it being good practice tor the approaching days on the long, long trail: I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little...door that is opened. And voices soft and sweet.... Here he ceased. Had he heard something in the passage — or 'descending the broad hall stair? Because... | |
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BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices... 
