<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373713" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Albert Schirding</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one<br>Because his children were all failures.<br>But I know of a fate more trying than that:<br>It is to be a failure while your children are successes.<br>For I raised a brood of eagles<br>Who flew away at last, leaving me<br>A crow on the abandoned bough.<br>Then, with the ambition to prefix Honorable to my name,<br>And thus to win my children's admiration,<br>I ran for County Superintendent of Schools,<br>Spending my accumulations to win -- and lost.<br>That fall my daughter received first prize in Paris<br>For her picture, entitled, &quot;The Old Mill&quot; --<br>(It was of the water mill before Henry Wilkin put in steam.)<br>The feeling that I was not worthy of her finished me.</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><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=373713" data-title="Albert Schirding de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one Because his children were all failures. But I know of a fate more trying than that: It is to be a failure while your children are successes. For I raised a brood of eagles Who flew away at last, leaving me A ..."></div> </div> </div>

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