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+------ Thema: Eliot, George: BROTHER AND SISTER. (/showthread.php?tid=16773)
Eliot, George: BROTHER AND SISTER. - ZaunköniG - 28.10.2007
BROTHER AND SISTER.
I CANNOT choose but think upon the time
When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss
At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime,
Because the one so near the other is.
He was the elder, and a little man
Of forty inches, bound to show no dread,
And I the girl that puppy-like now ran,
Now lagged behind my brother's larger tread.
I held him wise, and when he talked to me
Of snakes and birds, and which God loved the best,
I thought his knowledge marked the boundary
Where men grew blind, though angels knew the rest.
If he said c Hush !' I tried to hold my breath ;
Wherever he said ' Come ! ' I stepped in faith.