- LISTEN, children,
- Your father is dead.
- From his old coats
- I'll make you little jackets;
- I'll make you little trousers
- From his old pants.
- There'll be in his pockets
- Things he used to put there:
- Keys and pennies
- Covered with tobacco.
- Dan shall have the pennies
- To save in his bank;
- Anne shall have the keys
- To make a pretty noise with.
- Life must go on
- And the dead be forgotten;
- Life must go on
- Though good men die.
- Anne, eat your breakfast;
- Dan, take your medicine.
- Life must go on;
- I forget just why.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Image: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00675/orphans1_675357c.jpg : REUTERS
