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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AD ASTRA: 112, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE
First Line: What man that hath a weak and ailing child
Last Line: Heals every wound, and can all tears becalm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Children; Parents; Sympathy; Childhood; Parenthood; Empathy
First Line: What man that hath a weak and ailing child
Last Line: Heals every wound, and can all tears becalm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Children; Parents; Sympathy; Childhood; Parenthood; Empathy
What man that hath a weak and ailing child
Learns not to love it over all the rest?
So may sweet Pity's heart be reconciled,
While larger love exalts the parent's breast.
The little sufferer is of all most blest,
For sympathy fails never of its balm,
Heals every wound, and can all tears becalm.
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