<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447569" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Children</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A word will fill the little heart<br>With pleasure and with pride;<br>It is a harsh, a cruel thing,<br>That such can be denied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet how many weary hours<br>Those joyous creatures know;<br>How much of sorrow and restraint<br>They to their elders owe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How much they suffer from our faults!<br>How much from our mistakes!<br>How often, too, mistaken zeal<br>An infant's misery makes!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We overrule and overteach,<br>We curb and we confine,<br>And put the heart to school too soon,<br>To learn our narrow line.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No: only taught by love to love,<br>Seems childhood's natural task; <br>Affection, gentleness, and hope,<br>Are all its brief years ask.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Letitia+Elizabeth+Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</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=447569" data-title="Children de Letitia Elizabeth Landon" data-description="A word will fill the little heart With pleasure and with pride; It is a harsh, a cruel thing, That such can be denied. And yet how many weary hours Those joyous creatures know; How much of sorrow and restraint They to their elders owe! How much ..."></div> </div> </div>

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