My child

         The Children's Hour

Between the dark and the daylight,
     When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
     That is known as the Children's Hour...

....And there I will keep you forever,
     Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
     And moulder in dust away!

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You have been my child forever.  Nothing can ever change that.