Where did you come from, baby dear?Out of the everywhere into here.
George MacDonaldAt the Back of the North Wind, 1871 · Chapter XXXIII: The Prospect Brightens
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George MacDonald · At the Back of the North Wind
Joy & wonder
“Where did you come from, baby dear?”
- Author
- George MacDonald
- Work
- At the Back of the North Wind
- Year
- 1871
- Chapter / part
- Chapter XXXIII: The Prospect Brightens
- Length
- 13 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #225
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. George MacDonald died in 1905, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1871. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,Hath had elsewhere its setting,And cometh from afar:Not in entire forgetfulness,And not in utter nakedness,But trailing clouds of glory do we comeFrom God, who is our home:
You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
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