<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384053" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Squatter's Children</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the unbreathing sides of hills<br>they play, a specklike girl and boy,<br>alone, but near a specklike house.<br>The Sun's suspended eye<br>blinks casually, and then they wade<br>gigantic waves of light and shade.<br>A dancing yellow spot, a pup,<br>attends them. Clouds are piling up; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a storm piles up behind the house.<br>The children play at digging holes.<br>The ground is hard; they try to use<br>one of their father's tools,<br>a mattock with a broken haft<br>the two of them can scarcely lift.<br>It drops and clangs. Their laughter spreads<br>effulgence in the thunderheads, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weak flashes of inquiry<br>direct as is the puppy's bark.<br>But to their little, soluble,<br>unwarrantable ark,<br>apparently the rain's reply<br>consists of echolalia,<br>and Mother's voice, ugly as sin,<br>keeps calling to them to come in. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Children, the threshold of the storm<br>has slid beneath your muddy shoes;<br>wet and beguiled, you stand among<br>the mansions you may choose<br>out of a bigger house than yours,<br>whose lawfulness endures.<br>It's soggy documents retain<br>your rights in rooms of falling rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Bishop">Elizabeth Bishop</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=384053" data-title="Squatter's Children de Elizabeth Bishop" data-description="On the unbreathing sides of hills they play, a specklike girl and boy, alone, but near a specklike house. The Sun's suspended eye blinks casually, and then they wade gigantic waves of light and shade. A dancing yellow spot, a pup, attends them. Cl..."></div> </div> </div>

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