As woman has always mothered the race she should now refuse to be its child.
The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861
(English. Foremost among the world’s poets. Lived with her husband, Robert Browning, for many years in Italy, championing the cause of the Italian people toward liberty.)
Do you hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
They are leaning their young heads against their mothers—
And that cannot stop their tears.
The young lambs are bleating in the meadows;
The young birds are chirping in the nest: