Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYtioVyZDu
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcbLoIwUj6
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, that is. Distant relatives of course523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDOFDq5a5mS
Die, whom one never has seen or has seen for an hour,523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllzm7lQyTZ
And they gave one candy in a pink-and-green stripéd bag, or a jack-knife,523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgD6XwMF6KH
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,523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifId7814tX
And their reticent fur is suddenly all in motion523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSDGiCGT7iH
With fleas that one never knew were there,523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo5YzzokSaP
Polished and brown, knowing all there is to know,523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi3wk2fDws1
Trekking off into the living world.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5gT1wkFgE
You fetch a shoe-box, but it's much too small, because she won't curl up now:523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNc3wQ0FGS
So you find a bigger box, and bury her in the yard, and weep.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXo9egEUoQ
But you do not wake up a month from then, two months523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcIbSvPTgP4
A year from then, two years, in the middle of the night523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrGbsSwB2P
And weep, with your knuckles in your mouth, and say Oh, God! Oh, God!523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivLEM6bsha
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies that matters,523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1nFQqsyoK
—mothers and fathers don't die.
And if you have said, "For heaven's sake, must you always be kissing a person?"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5SVUyA78g
Or, "I do wish to gracious you'd stop tapping on the window with your thimble!"523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAkYU6t1I1
Tomorrow, or even the day after tomorrow if you're busy having fun,523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq662xiGsmb
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,523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDbCaeHCpW7
who neither listen nor speak;523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1Y37G9cSF
Who do not drink their tea, though they always said523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVm4FXD1fS
Tea was such a comfort.
Run down into the cellar and bring up the last jar of raspberries;523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnby5p9fORK
they are not tempted.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1iHLC5o6WT
Flatter them, ask them what was it they said exactly523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkV5XfQf1l8
That time, to the bishop, or to the overseer, or to Mrs. Mason;523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVA6IeEXfE
They are not taken in.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgejqjEkisR
Shout at them, get red in the face, rise,523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpo6B0POqK
Drag them up out of their chairs by their stiff shoulders and shake523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNX7Joc9E7
them and yell at them;523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcDqbI50n2Y
They are not startled, they are not even embarrassed; they slide523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJt98gTKeg3
back into their chairs.
Your tea is cold now.523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JpYduEflh
You drink it standing up,523Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrf2Z0n8Als
And leave the house.
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