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> [Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/know-you-what-it-is-to-be-a-child-it-is-to-be-something-very/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

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## More by Francis Thompson

> [Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/babies-breathe-a-lot-more-rapidly-than-adults-do-and-what-s-more-they/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [And left the flushed print in a poppy there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/and-left-the-flushed-print-in-a-poppy-there/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/look-for-me-in-the-nurseries-of-heaven/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [“The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To her who loved the rose.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/the-fairest-things-have-fleetest-end-their-scent-survives-their-close-2/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [“Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee Save Me, save only Me? All which I took from thee I did but take, Not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/whom-wilt-thou-find-to-love-ignoble-thee-save-me-save-only-me-all/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [“ A Corymbus for Autumn How are the veins of thee, Autumn, laden? Umbered juices, And pulpèd oozes Pappy out of the cherry-bruises, Froth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/a-corymbus-for-autumn-how-are-the-veins-of-thee-autumn-laden-umbered/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/but-lilies-stolen-from-grassy-mold-no-more-curled-state-unfold/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [Happiness is the shadow of things past, Wich fools still take for that which is to be!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/happiness-is-the-shadow-of-things-past-wich-fools-still-take-for-that/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/an-atheist-is-a-man-who-believes-himself-an-accident/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/oh-invisible-we-view-thee-o-world-intangible-we-touch-thee-o-world/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [“I fled Him down the nights and down the days I fled Him down the arches of the years I fled Him down the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/i-fled-him-down-the-nights-and-down-the-days-i-fled-him-down-the/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/the-devil-doesn-t-know-how-to-sing-only-how-to-howl/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/agnosticism-is-the-everlasting-perhaps/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/baby-smiled-mother-wailed-earthward-while-the-sweetling-sailed-mother/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

> [In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-thompson/in-all-change-well-looked-into-the-germinal-good-out-veils-the/)

[Francis Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-thompson/)

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