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Sonntag, 8. August 2021

The Seven Ages of Childhood, Pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith

  Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. 

 



First the Infant in Its Mother's Arms
 


 





Then the Toddling Baby Boy -With shining morning face, Creeping like a snail.



Then the Epicure, With fine and greedy taste for porridge


Then the Lover, sighing like the furnace
 


Then the Scholar, with eyes severe and hair of formal cut


The Sixth Shifts
To lean and slender maidenhood,
With thoughtful eyes and quiet mien



Last scene of all that ends
This strange eventful history -
Is first Lore and mere enchantment -
Sans Mother, Sans Father, Sans Brother, Sans Everything



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