<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=563919" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Miss Hawthorne</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At half till noon<br>on Tuesday morn<br>in the chapel room<br>on threaded carpet torn, <br>sits little children ‘round<br>the new schoolteacher, <br>Miss Hawthorne.<br>They sing “Jesus loves me, <br>this I know, for the Bible<br>tells me so”. They read<br>John 3: 16, “For God<br>so loved the world, that <br>he gave…”<br>How easy to have <br>trust, how easy to be on<br>fire. When the deepest<br>pains are skinned knees, <br>growing bones, lost teeth not<br>being alone. Being lost, <br>lukewarm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They spoke as children do; <br>understood as children would; <br>thought as children can.<br>Miss Hawthorne, on the rug<br>torn bare, cannot <br>prepare the little children<br>for the world that tears.<br>For the scars they will<br>wear upon the brow. How<br>easy to lose sight of God’s<br>love amidst the callous, drear<br>love the world returns, when one<br>hopes too hard and finds none of <br>it near.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2010</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ryan+Glover">Ryan Glover</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=563919" data-title="Miss Hawthorne de Ryan Glover" data-description="At half till noon on Tuesday morn in the chapel room on threaded carpet torn, sits little children ‘round the new schoolteacher, Miss Hawthorne. They sing “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so”. They read John 3: 16, “..."></div> </div> </div>

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