I AM the mother and the daughter

On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 7:50:32 PM UTC-4, Molly wrote:
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> In retrospect, my poetry project was a harmless sideline that kept me 
> benevolently out of her 
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/style/bringing-a-daughter-back-from-the-brink-with-poems.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fmodern-love&_r=0>
>  
> way as she struggled not just to see the horizon but to march bravely 
> toward it.
>
> On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 4:00:49 AM UTC-4, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>
>> Poetry
>> Path way to soul
>> Inner being
>>
>> Words
>> Expressing thoughts
>> Path onward
>>
>> Time
>> Ever present
>> Marker
>>
>>
>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hope Sunshine <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 8:08 AM
>> Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Poem4
>>
>> Beautiful and sad at the same time. Thanks for sharing it here with us 
>> Molly on this grey morning.
>>
>> Am Mittwoch, 11. März 2015 00:41:44 UTC+1 schrieb Molly:
>>>
>>> Can I see another's woe,
>>> And not be in sorrow too?
>>> Can I see another's grief,
>>> And not seek for kind relief?
>>>
>>> Can I see a falling tear,
>>> And not feel my sorrow's share?
>>> Can a father see his child
>>> Weep, nor be with sorrow filled?
>>>
>>> Can a mother sit and hear
>>> An infant groan, an infant fear?
>>> No, no! never can it be!
>>> Never, never can it be!
>>> And can He who smiles on all
>>> Hear the wren with sorrows small,
>>> Hear the small bird's grief and care,
>>> Hear the woes that infants bear --
>>>
>>> And not sit beside the next,
>>> Pouring pity in their breast,
>>> And not sit the cradle near,
>>> Weeping tear on infant's tear?
>>>
>>> And not sit both night and day,
>>> Wiping all our tears away?
>>> Oh no! never can it be!
>>> Never, never can it be!
>>> He doth give his joy to all:
>>> He becomes an infant small,
>>> He becomes a man of woe,
>>> He doth feel the sorrow too.
>>>
>>> Think not thou canst sigh a sigh,
>>> And thy Maker is not by:
>>> Think not thou canst weep a tear,
>>> And thy Maker is not near.
>>>
>>> Oh He gives to us his joy,
>>> That our grief He may destroy:
>>> Till our grief is fled an gone
>>> He doth sit by us and moan.
>>>
>>> - William Blake
>>>
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