Childhood pays a second visit to man when he visits his school after a long time. I was reminded of my visit to my school two months back. Even the strictest teacher smiled back when I greeted him. Always fantasising, children take strangers to be straight out of fairy tales - those like Snow White or like the old witch of 'Hansel and Gretel'. Childhood has been a recurring theme in Enlish literature, including 'Ode:Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood' by William Wordsworth:
"Heaven lies about us in our Infancy!"
Hence, the lamentation upon being grown-up:
"Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and dream?"
Where is it now, the glory and dream?"
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