<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384448" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Is It Best?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O mother who sips sweetened liquors!<br>Look down at the child on your breast;<br>Think, think of the rough path before him,<br>And ask yourself then, 'Is it best?<br>Shall I foster a love for this poison,<br>Instil the thirst into his veins?<br>In the fountain he seeks at my bosom<br>Sow the rank seeds of death, grief, and pains?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Shall I give him the thirst of the drunkard,<br>Bequeath him the weapons of crime?<br>Can we look for a glass of pure water<br>Dipped up from a fountain of slime?<br>Can we look for brave men, strong and noble,<br>Where the parents drink poison for food?<br>When the body and soul are corrupted,<br>Can we look for the works to be good?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Oh! think of the future before him!<br>There are perils you cannot remove.<br>Yet this, the great highway of sorrow-<br>Oh! guard him from this with your love.<br>There are rough paths enough in the future<br>For the feet of the child on your breast;<br>And lower the glass you are lifting,<br>And ask yourself, then, 'Is it best?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</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=384448" data-title="Is It Best? de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="O mother who sips sweetened liquors! Look down at the child on your breast; Think, think of the rough path before him, And ask yourself then, 'Is it best? Shall I foster a love for this poison, Instil the thirst into his veins? In the fountain he ..."></div> </div> </div>

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