In the folly of youth I one day shouted at my mother who then sat down with a grieved heart in a corner and said, weeping: -Hast thou forgotten thy infancy that thou art harsh towards me?-
How sweetly said the old woman to her son
When she saw him overthrow a tiger, and elephant-bodied:
-If thou hadst remembered the time of thy infancy
How helpless thou wast in my arms
Thou would-st this day not have been harsh
For thou art a lion-like man, and I an old woman.-
Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 06
Saadi Shirazi
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Poem topics: heart, mother, son, tiger, time, corner, elephant, youth, woman, Valentine's Day, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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