<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408767" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Babies of Walloon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was lengthsman on the railway, and his station scarce deserved<br>That “pre-eminence in sorrow” of the Majesty he served,<br>But as dear to him and precious were the gifts reclaimed so soon—<br>Were the workman’s little daughters who were buried near Walloon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Speak their names in tones that linger, just as though you held them dear;<br>There are eyes to which the mention of those names will bring a tear.<br>Little Kate and Bridget, straying in an autumn afternoon,<br>Were attracted by the lilies in the water of Walloon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All is dark to us. The angels sing perhaps in Paradise<br>Of the younger sister’s danger, and the elder’s sacrifice;<br>But the facts were hidden from us, when the soft light from the moon<br>Glistened on the water-lilies o’er the Babies at Walloon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! the children love the lilies, while we elders are inclined<br>To the flowers that have poison for the body and the mind.<br>Better for the “strongly human” to have done with life as soon,<br>Better perish for a lily like the Babies of Walloon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For they gather flowers early on the river far away,<br>Where the everlasting lilies keep their purity for aye,<br>And while summer brings our lilies to the run and the lagoon<br>May our children keep the legend of the Babies of Walloon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</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=408767" data-title="The Babies of Walloon de Henry Lawson" data-description="He was lengthsman on the railway, and his station scarce deserved That “pre-eminence in sorrow” of the Majesty he served, But as dear to him and precious were the gifts reclaimed so soon— Were the workman’s little daughters who were buried..."></div> </div> </div>

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