<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371232" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: Dear Child</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet girl, firstborn in an alien country! <br>’Tis sad your parents now cannot rear thee; <br>Grandparents tend to thee- aren’t you lucky? <br>Your mom and dad miss thee so miserably. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You breathed first air of a foreign country! <br>Be happy breathe you now your Moth’rland’s air; <br>Maybe, you miss your parents’ luxury; <br>Tho’ life to you has been unfair, ’tis fair! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The water you now drink isn’t very clean; <br>The food you take, less sterile than you should; <br>But bless’d are you, amidst a loveful scene! <br>Whatever happens now is for your good.<br> <br>Pity your parents, who are unlucky, <br>And miss your screams and smiles and lullaby! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 9-8 -2001 by Dr John Celes<br>To dear Annika</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</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=371232" data-title="Sonnet: Dear Child de John Celes" data-description="Sweet girl, firstborn in an alien country! ’Tis sad your parents now cannot rear thee; Grandparents tend to thee- aren’t you lucky? Your mom and dad miss thee so miserably. You breathed first air of a foreign country! Be happy breathe yo..."></div> </div> </div>

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