Child's Moon

The child's wonder
At the old moon
Comes back nightly.
She points her finger
To the far silent yellow thing
Shining through the branches
Filtering on the leaves a golden sand,
Crying with her little tongue, "See the moon!"
And in her bed fading to sleep
With babblings of the moon on her little mouth.

                  

 ~Carl Sandburg

When a child can be brought to tears.....

When a child can be brought to tears, 

and not from fear of punishment,

 but from repentance, he needs no chastisement. 

When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct 

you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

~~Horace Mann