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THE SEVEN AGES OF CHILDHOOD

First the Infant in Its Mother's Arms

THE SEVEN AGES OF CHILDHOOD

PICTURES BY JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH VERSES BY CAROLYN WELLS

NEW YORK MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY 1909

Copyright, 1908, 1909, by The Curtis Publishing Company —————— Copyright, 1909, by Moffat, Yard and Company NEW YORK —————— All rights reserved The Plimpton Press Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

To THE SEVEN LITTLE FRIENDS WHO SO KINDLY HELPED ME IN MAKING THESE PICTURES, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

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Then the Toddling Baby Boy10

Then the Epicure18

Then the Lover sighing like a furnace26

Then the Scholar34

The Sixth Age shifts To lean and slender maidenhood46

Last scene of all that ends This strange eventful History54