<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464622" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Snatchers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was a kid, <br>And at noon hungry, <br>My mother gave me <br>A bit of bread <br>And I ate moving <br>In the street only in a shirt, <br>And sometime went <br>To the farther end of the street<br>But the crows <br>Sitting on the surrounding walls <br>Or edges of the roofs dived<br>One of them snatched the piece <br>And other cawed on the walls, <br>Or in the trees or on the roofs.<br>I returned weeping and wailing<br>Clang to my mother, <br>Who wiped my tears <br>With a corner of her clout <br>And gave me an other, <br>Reprimanding that I should eat <br>Sitting beside her<br>While she churned milk; <br>And I sat in her shade <br>In the dusty courtyard <br>Extending my naked legs on the ground<br>And ate the piece with relish.<br>Now I am a grown up man, <br>My mother has passed away <br>No one is to wipe my tears, <br>I earn my bread <br>The crows still dive to snatch the pieces, <br>But now they do not caw on the walls, <br>Or in the trees or on the roofs.<br>But they sit either on a throne, <br>In the assembly or senate halls<br>Or chambers of commerce<br>Or live in the societies of defence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Muhammad+Shanazar">Muhammad Shanazar</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=464622" data-title="The Snatchers de Muhammad Shanazar" data-description="When I was a kid, And at noon hungry, My mother gave me A bit of bread And I ate moving In the street only in a shirt, And sometime went To the farther end of the street But the crows Sitting on the surrounding walls Or edges of the roofs..."></div> </div> </div>

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