The poem
Has no one said those daring Kind eyes should be more learn'd? Or warned you how despairing The moths are when they are burned? I could have warned you; but you are young, So we speak a different tongue. O you will take whatever's offered And dream that all the world's a friend, Suffer as your mother suffered, Be as broken in the end. But I am old and you are young, And I speak a barbarous tongue.
I absolutely love this poem but feel obliged to put up this warning. Be aware that this is the second part of a two part poem entitled TO A CHILD DANCING ON THE WIND. They are sometimes published together under "To a Child..." but most critisim will mention both names.