<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=125081" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Elizabeth Childers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dust of my dust, <br>And dust with my dust, <br>O, child who died as you entered the world, <br>Dead with my death! <br>Not knowing Breath, though you tried so hard, <br>With a heart that beat when you lived with me, <br>And stopped when you left me for Life. <br>It is well, my child. For you never traveled <br>The long, long way that begins with school days, <br>When little fingers blur under the tears <br>That fall on the crooked letters. <br>And the earliest wound, when a little mate <br>Leaves you alone for another; <br>And sickness, and the face of Fear by the bed; <br>The death of a father or mother; <br>Or shame for them, or poverty; <br>The maiden sorrow of school days ended; <br>And eyeless Nature that makes you drink <br>From the cup of Love, though you know it’s poisoned; <br>To whom would your flower-face have been lifted? <br>Botanist, weakling? Cry of what blood to yours?— <br>Pure or foul, for it makes no matter, <br>It’s blood that calls to our blood. <br>And then your children—oh, what might they be? <br>And what your sorrow? Child! Child! <br>Death is better than Life!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</a> from <i>Spoon River Anthology</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=125081" data-title="Elizabeth Childers de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="Dust of my dust, /And dust with my dust, /O, child who died as you entered the world, /Dead with my death! /Not knowing Breath, though you tried so hard, /With a heart that beat when you lived with me, /And stopped when you left me for Life...."></div> </div> </div>

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