<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523471" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>O Children!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Children why do you make mockery of the old? <br>What gives you that audaciousness to be bold? <br>Hasn’t anyone spoken, have you not been told? <br>Your time for maturing, you cannot put on hold</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Silent children, speak quietly<br>Silent children, speak gently<br>Address me not rudely<br>I speak to you all fondly</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see you all; I have been there before<br>Like a thief I want to creep<br>Back on the other side of age’s door<br>Today I weep, I weep and I weep<br>O Eternal youth thou cannot keep! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Children, Children, Why the innocence? <br>With a deceptive facial display that is intense<br>I see through you all, I see the entire pretence<br>You say you are sorry, it’s a lie, I can sense</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Children why do you seek to grow so fast? <br>Your flowering youth is not meant to last<br>Before long it will wrinkle away into the past<br>Soon you shall become a mere outcast<br>In the land of youth and that is the truth</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sylvia+Chidi">Sylvia Chidi</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=523471" data-title="O Children! de Sylvia Chidi" data-description="O Children why do you make mockery of the old? What gives you that audaciousness to be bold? Hasn’t anyone spoken, have you not been told? Your time for maturing, you cannot put on hold Silent children, speak quietly Silent children, speak g..."></div> </div> </div>

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