<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384602" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Boys' And Girls' Thanksgiving of 1892</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never since the race was started,<br>Had a boy in any clime,<br>Cause to be so thankful-hearted,<br>As the boys of present time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not a girl in old times living-<br>Let the world talk as it may-<br>Found such reasons for Thanksgiving,<br>As the girls who live to-day!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grandmas, in their corners sitting,<br>Toiling till the day grew late,<br>What knew they with endless knitting,<br>Of the jolly roller-skate?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grandpas sitting by the fender,<br>Reading by the faggots' blaze,<br>What knew they of modern splendor<br>Found in incandescent rays?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where they toiled in bitter weather,<br>Braving rain and snow and sleet,<br>Gathering sticks of wood together,<br>We have radiators' heat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But these fruits of modern science<br>They first planted seed by seed,<br>In their strength and self-reliance<br>We may find a noble creed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With the dawn of great inventions,<br>Came the anti-warring days.<br>Men are sick of armed contentions,<br>God be thanked with heart-felt praise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once a boy was trained for fighting,<br>Now the world is better taught,<br>'Tis an age when wrongs are righting<br>By the force of common thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once a girl was trained for sewing,<br>Spinning, knitting, nothing more.<br>She must never think of knowing<br>Aught of things outside her door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If she soared above her spinning,<br>If she sought a life more broad,<br>She was looked upon as sinning<br>'Gainst the laws of man and God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now a girl is taught she's human,<br>Brain and body, soul and heart-<br>All are needed by the woman<br>Who to-day would play her part.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Swift and sure the world advances,<br>Let the critic carp who may.<br>God be praised for all the chances<br>Boys and girls enjoy to-day.</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=384602" data-title="The Boys' And Girls' Thanksgiving of 1892 de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Never since the race was started, Had a boy in any clime, Cause to be so thankful-hearted, As the boys of present time. Not a girl in old times living- Let the world talk as it may- Found such reasons for Thanksgiving, As the girls who live to-da..."></div> </div> </div>

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