<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529715" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To an Unborn Pauper Child</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently,<br>And though thy birth-hour beckons thee,<br>Sleep the long sleep:<br>The Doomsters heap<br>Travails and teens around us here,<br>And Time-Wraiths turn our songsingings to fear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hark, how the peoples surge and sigh,<br>And laughters fail, and greetings die;<br>Hopes dwindle; yea,<br>Faiths waste away,<br>Affections and enthusiasms numb:<br>Thou canst not mend these things if thou dost come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had I the ear of wombed souls<br>Ere their terrestrial chart unrolls,<br>And thou wert free<br>To cease, or be,<br>Then would I tell thee all I know,<br>And put it to thee: Wilt thou take Life so?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vain vow! No hint of mine may hence<br>To theeward fly: to thy locked sense<br>Explain none can<br>Life's pending plan:<br>Thou wilt thy ignorant entry make<br>Though skies spout fire and blood and nations quake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fain would I, dear, find some shut plot<br>Of earth's wide wold for thee, where not<br>One tear, one qualm,<br>Should break the calm.<br>But I am weak as thou and bare;<br>No man can change the common lot to rare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Must come and bide. And such are we --<br>Unreasoning, sanguine, visionary --<br>That I can hope<br>Health, love, friends, scope<br>In full for thee; can dream thou'lt find<br>Joys seldom yet attained by humankind!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Hardy">Thomas Hardy</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=529715" data-title="To an Unborn Pauper Child de Thomas Hardy" data-description="Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently, And though thy birth-hour beckons thee, Sleep the long sleep: The Doomsters heap Travails and teens around us here, And Time-Wraiths turn our songsingings to fear. Hark, how the peoples surge and sigh, And ..."></div> </div> </div>

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