<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391929" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Little Children</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hunger points a bony finger<br>To the workhouse on the hill,<br>But the little children linger<br>While there's flowers to gather still<br>For my sunny window sill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my hands I take their faces,<br>Smiling to my smiles they run.<br>Would that I could take their places<br>Where the murky bye-ways shun<br>The benedictions of the sun</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How they laugh and sing returning<br>Lightly on their secret way.<br>While I listen in my yearning<br>Their laughter fills the windy day<br>With gladness, youth and May.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Ledwidge">Francis Ledwidge</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=391929" data-title="The Little Children de Francis Ledwidge" data-description="Hunger points a bony finger To the workhouse on the hill, But the little children linger While there's flowers to gather still For my sunny window sill. In my hands I take their faces, Smiling to my smiles they run. Would that I could take their ..."></div> </div> </div>

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