Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhFYfF9LmG2
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQN0aOPjVY8
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, that is. Distant relatives of course554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIDeCpsCw7k
Die, whom one never has seen or has seen for an hour,554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtaVqSNQd1Z
And they gave one candy in a pink-and-green stripéd bag, or a jack-knife,554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcR5De9HGja
And went away, and cannot really be said to have lived at all.
And cats die. They lie on the floor and lash their tails,554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ59TtyDMXh4
And their reticent fur is suddenly all in motion554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqhyOUtGz2q
With fleas that one never knew were there,554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm5i26v0knM
Polished and brown, knowing all there is to know,554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDq2QBeIfch
Trekking off into the living world.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVGLWFACzav
You fetch a shoe-box, but it's much too small, because she won't curl up now:554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZtveojoWxg
So you find a bigger box, and bury her in the yard, and weep.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWcRpX4goFl
But you do not wake up a month from then, two months554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKN0YJvrd0K
A year from then, two years, in the middle of the night554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDKc48YXKR
And weep, with your knuckles in your mouth, and say Oh, God! Oh, God!554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyg8tLlX7Gk
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies that matters,554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbntpcS36wk
—mothers and fathers don't die.
And if you have said, "For heaven's sake, must you always be kissing a person?"554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqDwpIoaPY
Or, "I do wish to gracious you'd stop tapping on the window with your thimble!"554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvx5465dS0O
Tomorrow, or even the day after tomorrow if you're busy having fun,554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5C2pr1AFs
Is plenty of time to say, "I'm sorry, mother."
To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died,554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpDC2OLJ6k
who neither listen nor speak;554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKTe2S4iF3
Who do not drink their tea, though they always said554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZv52yovrIh
Tea was such a comfort.
Run down into the cellar and bring up the last jar of raspberries;554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqoUuilBKnx
they are not tempted.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8cqywXrexq
Flatter them, ask them what was it they said exactly554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHlDW1gx9v
That time, to the bishop, or to the overseer, or to Mrs. Mason;554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXYppYrh5o
They are not taken in.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNsWtCMh8Vf
Shout at them, get red in the face, rise,554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemChYsTsiJ
Drag them up out of their chairs by their stiff shoulders and shake554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtD4QsojYq
them and yell at them;554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSzA6DIAHG
They are not startled, they are not even embarrassed; they slide554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZfn2IFyOH1
back into their chairs.
Your tea is cold now.554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLjaEqDUsd
You drink it standing up,554Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBOMm59DGM
And leave the house.
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