<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117390" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bereaved Father</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye have gone from me, gentle ones!<br>With all your shouts of mirth;<br>A silence is within my walls,<br>A darkness round my hearth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The brightness from my life has gone,<br>The gladness from my heart!<br>Alas! alas! that such as you<br>From home and love should part!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Woe to the hearts that heard, unmoved,<br>The mother's anguish'd shriek!<br>And mock'd, with taunting scorn, the tears<br>That bathed a father's cheek.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Woe to the hands that tore you hence,<br>My innocent and good!<br>Not e'en the tigress of the wild,<br>Thus tears her fellow's brood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I list to hear your soft sweet tones,<br>Upon the morning air;<br>I gaze amidst the twilight's gloom,<br>As if to find you there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But you no more come bounding forth,<br>To meet me in your glee;<br>And when the evening shadows fall,<br>Ye are not at my knee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your forms are aye before my eyes,<br>Your voices on my ear,<br>And all things wear a thought of you,<br>But you no more are here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You were the glory of my life,<br>My blessing and my pride!<br>I half forgot the name of slave,<br>When you were by my side!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Woe for the lot that waiteth you,<br>My victim babes! through life;<br>Who now shall teach you to bear up<br>Amidst its bitter strife!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Woe for your lot, ye doom'd ones! woe!<br>A seal is on your fate!<br>And shame, and toil, and wretchedness,<br>On all your steps await!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Margaret+Chandler">Elizabeth Margaret Chandler</a> from <i>Poetical Works</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117390" data-title="The Bereaved Father de Elizabeth Margaret Chandler" data-description="Ye have gone from me, gentle ones!/With all your shouts of mirth;/A silence is within my walls,/A darkness round my hearth./The brightness from my life has gone,/The gladness from my heart!/Alas! alas! that such as you/From home and love should pa..."></div> </div> </div>

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