<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428731" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sad Spring</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Spring weeps, she is forlorn; <br>Well that she may weep, alas! <br>Now that many babes are born<br>Whose dear fathers lie in grass. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Snowdrops in the frozen earth<br>Faint and are not comforted; <br>Never was so sad a birth, <br>Never was so sad a bed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>She must bear her pangs alone. <br>Where is sorrow like to hers? <br>In an anguish cold as stone<br>Her dead soldier's child she bears. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Now her trembling arms will hold<br>Close the piteous downy thing<br>To a milky breast as cold<br>As the frozen water-spring. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Now she hopes and dreads to find<br>Likeness in the little son<br>To his father, brave and kind. <br>Like or not, her heart's undone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Tender nurslings born in pain, <br>Mother's comfort, mother's grief, <br>When her tears run down like rain, <br>Lord, bring Thou a handkerchief. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Wipe the widow's tears away, <br>Father orphan boys and girls. <br>Lead them out where they may play, <br>With Thy hand upon their curls.</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=428731" data-title="The Sad Spring de Katharine Tynan" data-description="The Spring weeps, she is forlorn; Well that she may weep, alas! Now that many babes are born Whose dear fathers lie in grass. Snowdrops in the frozen earth Faint and are not comforted; Never was so sad a birth, Never was so sad a bed. Sh..."></div> </div> </div>

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