infancy (n.)
- babyhood
- birth
- callowness
- childhood
- commencement
- cradle
- dawn
- disability
- disablement
- disqualification
- early
- emergence
- freshness
- genesis
- greenness
- imbecility
- immaturity
- inability
- inadequacy
- incapability
- incapacity
- inception
- incipience
- incipiency
- incompetence
- incompetency
- inefficiency
- ineptitude
- inexperience
- inferiority
- initial
- insufficiency
- juiciness
- juvenility
- minority
- nascence
- nascency
- nativity
- nonage
- origin
- origination
- parturition
- pregnancy
- rawness
- rise
- start
- unfitness
- wardship
- youth
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
Not only around our infancy
Doth heaven with all its splendors lie;
Daily, with souls that cringe and plot,
We Sinais climb and know it not.
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 come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
"Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
Oh, when a mother meets on high
The babe she lost in infancy,
Hath she not then for pains and fears,
The day of woe, the watchful night,
For all her sorrow, all her tears,
An over-payment of delight?
