The Invalid Child.
Topics: classic
When I see other women's sons at play, God, pity me, lest I should turn away In rage and grief, and should not dare to look At my child, sitting patient with his book! But when their sons hold all the world in fee, With young men's pride, oh, then think not of me! Load me with burdens, let me feel the rod, And give my son his manhood, my God!
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