by Luis G. Dato
The songs I sang in childhood,
When I from care was free
Again I heard in moments
Entwined in memory.
And with the songs of childhood,
The past returns once more,
I am as yesterday,
A child by summer’s shore.
God grant that in my passing,
I end where I begun,
And hear the songs of childhood
Come with the set of sun.
— Philippine Magazine
July, 1937
