“I am but a little child”
William Sharp
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry
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Poem included in the prose contribution Mary of the Gael by Fiona Macleod, the
pseudonym of William Sharp (122-47), where the poem is described as a song in Erse (although whether it is indeed a translation is
uncertain). According to General Introduction to the Evergreen in Yellow Nineties
Online, the Autumn volume was published in October 1895. (EF, NM, AC)
The Evergreen
2
Autumn
125–126
I am but a little child
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I am but a little child,
Dùghall, son of Hugh, son of Art,
But my garment shall be laid
On the lord of the world,
Yea, surely it shall be that He
The King of the Elements Himself
Shall lean against my bosom,
And I will give him peace,
And peace will I give to all who ask
Because of this mighty Prince,
And because of his Mother that is the Daughter of Peace.