<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373773" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Elsa Wertman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was a peasant girl from Germany,<br>Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong.<br>And the first place I worked was at Thomas Greene's.<br>On a summer's day when she was away<br>He stole into the kitchen and took me<br>Right in his arms and kissed me on my throat,<br>I turning my head. Then neither of us<br>Seemed to know what happened.<br>And I cried for what would become of me.<br>And cried and cried as my secret began to show.<br>One day Mrs. Greene said she understood,<br>And would make no trouble for me,<br>And, being childless, would adopt it.<br>(He had given her a farm to be still. )<br>So she hid in the house and sent out rumors,<br>As if it were going to happen to her.<br>And all went well and the child was born -- They were so kind to me.<br>Later I married Gus Wertman, and years passed.<br>But -- at political rallies when sitters-by thought I was crying<br>At the eloquence of Hamilton Greene --<br>That was not it.<br>No! I wanted to say:<br>That's my son!<br>That's my son!</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=373773" data-title="Elsa Wertman de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I was a peasant girl from Germany, Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong. And the first place I worked was at Thomas Greene's. On a summer's day when she was away He stole into the kitchen and took me Right in his arms and kissed me on my throat, I tu..."></div> </div> </div>

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