<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511057" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Nursing Sister</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maternity Hospital</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Our sister sayeth such and such,<br>And we must bow to her behests.<br>Our sister toileth overmuch,<br>Our little maid that hath no breasts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A field untilled, a web unwove,<br>A flower withheld from sun or bee,<br>An alien in the Courts of Love,<br>And--teacher unto such as we!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We love her, but we laugh the while,<br>We laugh, but sobs are mixed with laughter;<br>Our sister hath no time to smile,<br>She knows not what must follow after.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wind of the South, arise and blow,<br>From beds of spice thy locks shake free;<br>Breathe on her heart that she may know,<br>Breathe on her eyes that she may see!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! we vex her with our mirth,<br>And maze her with most tender scorn,<br>Who stands beside the Gates of Birth,<br>Herself a child--a child unborn!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our sister sayeth such and such,<br>And we must bow to her behests.<br>Our sister toileth overmuch,<br>Our little maid that hath no breasts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=511057" data-title="The Nursing Sister de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Maternity Hospital Our sister sayeth such and such, And we must bow to her behests. Our sister toileth overmuch, Our little maid that hath no breasts. A field untilled, a web unwove, A flower withheld from sun or bee, An alien in the Courts of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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