<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428697" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Father</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Captain Patrick Tobin, R.D.F. Suvla, August 15th, 1915</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Ever his eyes are fixed on a glorious sight.<br>A boy is leading, calls his men to come on:<br>Light as a deer he leaps, slender and bright,<br>Up the hill, irresistible: it is won!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ever he sees the boy against the sky,<br>A slender Victory, light on his golden head.<br>Hardly the down on his lip he hath leaped so high,<br>His name is writ among the undying Dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Captain at one-and-twenty! Much was to come,<br>Great things yet to be done, heights to be scaled;<br>Love and comradeship, all fruition of bloom.<br>He has attained to the highest. Not he who failed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mother weeps her boy who comes not again.<br>The Father sees him, splendid and laughing still,<br>Leaping like a young deer, calling his men.<br>The glory dazzles! The boy's keeping the hill!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Tynan">Katharine Tynan</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=428697" data-title="The Father de Katharine Tynan" data-description="Captain Patrick Tobin, R.D.F. Suvla, August 15th, 1915 Ever his eyes are fixed on a glorious sight. A boy is leading, calls his men to come on: Light as a deer he leaps, slender and bright, Up the hill, irresistible: it is won! Ever he sees the..."></div> </div> </div>

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