CHILDREN.
They come, and take, unr.ec.king, all you give: The mother’s pains, ( the father’s patient toil, The love, the fears, dlream’s death that they may live, The day-long care, the weary midnight’s spoil. Now helpless beauty iu your anxious arms; Then peril potent grown a maid or lad ; Mcft, white still endure the first. alarms, They go unguessing, grown—with | all you had. You storm mute Heaven, demanding it why, Except for memories, your earth is lost: God’s, good is never cheap, the price is high— And yet what child has undeserved Its cost ? For: what you did is all this that they do, ' And what they rend is what yourself have riven. They came to be exac.tly what were you, And, Oh .' they go to give what you have given. —Reginald Wrig.ht Kauffman, ‘Life,” New Yofk, U.S.A.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5394, 1 March 1929, Page 4
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137CHILDREN. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5394, 1 March 1929, Page 4
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