POCKET TREASURES

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What right have we to call it junk-

What a boy has in his pocket?

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What matter the bright padlock

Has not a key to lock it

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Or that the whistle doesn’t blow.

The bell no longer rings?

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He needs those nails to build a house.

And then, that piece of string is

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Sure to come in handy for –

Well, almost anything.

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What a pity we must lose so much

To grow so old and wise.

~ Helen springer Morgan

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When I was a child, I thought as a child…

I Corinthians 13:11

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