this morning when i saw you

looking into my bedroom window,

i thought that i disliked you very much,

for all i could see

you very much resembled other days

spotless and so wholesome,

with all your tinsel bright,

but, your beauty touched me not at all.

but i decided to put up with you

as one would with strange, unwelcome guests.

i turned you around and about many, many times,

as a child would a new toy.

you were a lovely sight,

and yet i felt a bit depressed,

till of a sudden i thought

i saw you smile.

or was it only fancy?

then i gave you my profoundest thought

for a short while.

and way down in your remotest depths

great possibilities looked out at me,{79}

and i thought of all the things you might do

for this restless world.

so i fell in love with you,

before you were a half hour old.