<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355249" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Reaper's Child</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you go to the field where the reapers now bind<br>The sheaves of ripe corn, there a fine little lass,<br>Only three months of age, by the hedge-row you'll find,<br>Left alone by its mother upon the low grass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>While the mother is reaping, the infant is sleeping;<br>Not the basket that holds the provision is less<br>By the hard-working reaper, than this little sleeper,<br>Regarded, till hunger does on the babe press.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Then it opens its eyes, and it utters loud cries,<br>Which its hard-working mother afar off will hear;<br>She comes at its calling, she quiets its squalling,<br>And feeds it, and leaves it again without fear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When you were as young as this field-nursëd daughter,<br>You were fed in the house, and brought up on the knee;<br>So tenderly watched, thy fond mother thought her<br>Whole time well bestowed in nursing of thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</a><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=355249" data-title="The Reaper's Child de Charles Lamb" data-description="If you go to the field where the reapers now bind The sheaves of ripe corn, there a fine little lass, Only three months of age, by the hedge-row you'll find, Left alone by its mother upon the low grass. While the mother is reaping, the infant is..."></div> </div> </div>

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