<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508677" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Afflicted</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Softly every night they come<br> To the picture show,<br>That old couple, deaf and dumb<br> In the second row;<br>Wistful watching, hand in hand,<br> Proud they understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shut-ins from the world away,<br> All in all to each;<br>Knowing utter joy as they<br> Read the lips of speech . . .<br>Would, I wonder, I be glum<br> Were I deaf and dumb?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Were I quieted away,<br> Far from din and shock?<br>Were I spared the need to say<br> Silly things in talk?<br>Utter hush I would not mind . . .<br> Happy they!--I'm blind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</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=508677" data-title="The Afflicted de Robert William Service" data-description="Softly every night they come To the picture show, That old couple, deaf and dumb In the second row; Wistful watching, hand in hand, Proud they understand. Shut-ins from the world away, All in all to each; Knowing utter joy as they Read the l..."></div> </div> </div>

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