...desirable and attainable good." There was a child went forth every day, And the first object that he looked upon, that object he became. And that object became...became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe bird, The mother at home quietly...

...ideas as to the influence of the environment are well expressed in Walt Whitman's poem, beginning " There was a child went forth every day, And the first...morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird, And the Third-month lambs and the sow's pinkfaint litter, and the mare's foal and the...

...Meaars. Horace L. Traubel and Thomas B. Harned, hia literary executor*.] THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH » THERE was a child went forth every day, And the first...the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morningglories, and white and...

...contained in the four introductory lines. All that follows is an amplification of a single thought : — There was a child went forth every day, And the first...day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years. Every object grows incorporate with the child, an essential inseparable part of him, — the early...

...HARRIS \YIIITTEMOVP N'augatuck, Conn. AKT.HI;R \\"oons New York, N. Y A Child of Nature (Walt Whitman) There was. a child went forth every day, And the first...stretching cycles of years. The early lilacs became part of the child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of...

...lies in the influences of out-of-doors and the contact with elemental forces in Nature and in men. There was a child went forth every day, And the first...day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years. There, and not in outward incidents and acts, is the real record of those years. To the casual onlooker,...

...Whitman is both the poet and the psychologist as he sings of the " Child Who Went Forth Every Day." " There was a child went forth every day ; And the first...or for many years, or stretching cycles of years. His own parents, He that had father' d him, and she that had conceived him in her womb aud birth' d...

...expressed by Walter Whitman's poem: There was a child went forth every day And the first object he looked upon, that object he became, And that object became...became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning glories, The white and red clover, and the song of the Phoebe-bird, And the noisy brood of...

...mountains, waves, and skies a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them?" Whitman tells us of a child who "Went forth every day, And the first object he look'd...Or for many years or stretching cycles of years."* Browning, only more crabbedly, describes the same kind of activity. "No less, man," he says, "bounded,...

...mountains, waves, and skies a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them?" Whitman tells us of a child who "Went forth every day, And the first object he look'd...the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years."1 Browning, only more crabbedly, describes the same kind of activity. "No less, man," he says,...