<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507078" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Apples And Water</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dust in a cloud, blinding weather,<br>Drums that rattle and roar!<br>A mother and daughter stood together<br>Beside their cottage door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Mother, the heavens are bright like brass,<br>The dust is shaken high,<br>With labouring breath the soldiers pass,<br>Their lips are cracked and dry.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Mother, I'll throw them apples down,<br>I'll bring them pails of water.'<br>The mother turned with an angry frown<br>Holding back her daughter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But mother, see, they faint with thirst,<br>They march away to die,'<br>'Ah, sweet, had I but known at first<br>Their throats are always dry.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There is no water can supply them<br>In western streams that flow,<br>There is no fruit can satisfy them<br>On orchard trees that grow.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Once in my youth I gave, poor fool,<br>A soldier apples and water,<br>So may I die before you cool<br>Your father's drouth, my daughter.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Graves">Robert Graves</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=507078" data-title="Apples And Water de Robert Graves" data-description="Dust in a cloud, blinding weather, Drums that rattle and roar! A mother and daughter stood together Beside their cottage door. 'Mother, the heavens are bright like brass, The dust is shaken high, With labouring breath the soldiers pass, Their lip..."></div> </div> </div>

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