Conch
Hold a baby to your ear
As you would a shell:
Sounds of centuries you hear
New centuries foretell.
Who can break a baby's code?
And which is the older --
The listener or his small load?
The held or the holder?
E.B. WHITE
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| Clementine and her great-grandma Aggie, Wyoming, August 2013 |
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