Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE ORPHANS, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON



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First Line: At five o'clock one april morn
Last Line: "and broken up the home."
Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings


At five o'clock one April morn
I met them making tracks,
Young Benjamin and Abel Horn,
With bundles on their backs.

Young Benjamin is seventy-five,
Young Abel, seventy-seven --
The oldest innocents alive
Beneath that April heaven.

I asked them why they trudged about
With crabby looks and sour --
"And does your mother know you're out
At this unearthly hour?"

They stopped: and scowling up at me
Each shook a grizzled head,
And swore; and then spat bitterly,
As with one voice they said:

"Homeless, about the country-side
We never thought to roam;
But mother, she has gone and died,
And broken up the home."





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