Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡScAcJ8P7dP
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSt4mARwBcP
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, that is. Distant relatives of course595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBNmD4VZpV
Die, whom one never has seen or has seen for an hour,595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLcCwsEl58V
And they gave one candy in a pink-and-green stripéd bag, or a jack-knife,595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZ5uoOBg9Q
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,595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifmSv45UMW
And their reticent fur is suddenly all in motion595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMWrWjDZqI
With fleas that one never knew were there,595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTMlOng8Nv
Polished and brown, knowing all there is to know,595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvFILpS1etK
Trekking off into the living world.595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHxQMYRDUK
You fetch a shoe-box, but it's much too small, because she won't curl up now:595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIxwP3ZgQOD
So you find a bigger box, and bury her in the yard, and weep.595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVdhZq7wVp
But you do not wake up a month from then, two months595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMKzo7NtsA
A year from then, two years, in the middle of the night595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmv2ocEOA1r
And weep, with your knuckles in your mouth, and say Oh, God! Oh, God!595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV2Vcxrvvkq
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies that matters,595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0jmpX8NkDK
—mothers and fathers don't die.
And if you have said, "For heaven's sake, must you always be kissing a person?"595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2i8y3nCm3H
Or, "I do wish to gracious you'd stop tapping on the window with your thimble!"595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQLI1VCH1A
Tomorrow, or even the day after tomorrow if you're busy having fun,595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHVbdUCX7U
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,595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQ3u1DJvuj
who neither listen nor speak;595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCYFBkgSfA
Who do not drink their tea, though they always said595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyyUNLkxnMz
Tea was such a comfort.
Run down into the cellar and bring up the last jar of raspberries;595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlhyj4mGhau
they are not tempted.595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdaxrS9Qj2m
Flatter them, ask them what was it they said exactly595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1LVDq7NuMF
That time, to the bishop, or to the overseer, or to Mrs. Mason;595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1a0ticaZH
They are not taken in.595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZJviLU66i
Shout at them, get red in the face, rise,595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPtBshWd15a
Drag them up out of their chairs by their stiff shoulders and shake595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaJQJSpkagS
them and yell at them;595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhstSvAtuW
They are not startled, they are not even embarrassed; they slide595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIa5yl2tf98
back into their chairs.
Your tea is cold now.595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9xZ4GNjOW
You drink it standing up,595Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHSLpT6Tnk
And leave the house.
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