…Over her paint and her colours bent
Can paint what it is to be innocent.
Life, add thy wisdom, and at length bring us
Where springs the fountain of her genius.
Walter de la Mare
A few years ago, a couple found a small but elegant drawing of a young girl playing with her pets hanging at an art dealers.
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