<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383733" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Child on the Curbstone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The headlights raced; the moon, death-faced, <br>Stared down on that golden river. <br>I saw through the smoke the scarlet cloak <br>Of a boy who could not shiver.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His father's hand forced him to stand, <br>The traffic thundered slaughter; <br>One foot he thrust in the whirling dust <br>As it were running water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As in a dream I saw the stream <br>Scatter in drops that glistened; <br>They flamed, they flashed, his brow they splashed, <br>And danger's son was christened.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The portent passed; his fate was cast, <br>Sea-farer, desert-ranger. <br>Tearless I smiled on that fearless child <br>Dipping his foot in Danger.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elinor+Morton+Wylie">Elinor Morton Wylie</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=383733" data-title="The Child on the Curbstone de Elinor Morton Wylie" data-description="The headlights raced; the moon, death-faced, Stared down on that golden river. I saw through the smoke the scarlet cloak Of a boy who could not shiver. His father's hand forced him to stand, The traffic thundered slaughter; One foot he thrus..."></div> </div> </div>

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