...stanza that approaches lyric distinction, as, perhaps, in this final one of "A Foolish Wish": 'T is a child's longing, on the beach at play: "Before I...beckoning mother, "Let me stay One shell to throw!" "Pis coming night; the great sea climbs the shore— Ah, let me toss one little pebble more, Before...

...sense of larger issues : — " "Г is .4 child's longing, on the heach at play : ' Before I go, 1 lie begs the beckoning mother, ' Let me stay One shell...; the great sea climbs the shore, — ' Ah, let me tose one little pebble more, Before I go ! '" So his refined consciousness of the discords of life...

...touching by their chiding of self and their sense of larger " T is ;i child's longing, on the heach at play : ' Before I go,' He begs the beckoning mother, ' Let me stay One shell to throw ! ' 'Tis coming night; the great sea climbs the shore, — ' Ah, let me toss one little pebble more,...

...gained for them some gleam of good ; Have sought it long ; still seek, — if but I could ! Before I go. 'Tis a child's longing, on the beach at play : " Before...beckoning mother, "Let me stay One shell to throw ! " 'Tis coming night ; the great sea climbs the shore, — "Ah, let me toss one little pebble more,...