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Prayer for Our Daughters

by Mark Jarman

May they never be lonely at parties
Or wait for mail from people they haven't written
Or still in middle age ask God for favors
Or forbid their children things they were never forbidden.

May hatred be like a habit they never developed
And can't see the point of, like gambling or heavy drinking.
If they forget themselves, may it be in music
Or the kind of prayer that makes a garden of thinking.

May they enter the coming century
Like swans under a bridge into enchantment
And take with them enough of this century
To assure their grandchildren it really happened.

May they find a place to love, without nostalgia
For some place else that they can never go back to.
And may they find themselves, as we have found them,
Complete at each stage of their lives, each part they add to.

May they be themselves, long after we've stopped watching.
May they return from every kind of suffering
(Except the last, which doesn't bear repeating)
And be themselves again, both blessed and blessing.

所有跟帖： 

• 好诗！好读！ -千与.千寻- ♀ (306 bytes) () 03/30/2011 postreply 19:57:43

• 多谢。 让砖头来的更猛烈一些吧。 -jingbeiboy- ♂ (83 bytes) () 03/30/2011 postreply 20:04:38

• 中规中距！ -北京二号- ♀ (179 bytes) () 03/30/2011 postreply 23:22:05

• 自己有女儿， 所以很喜欢这首诗。 -jingbeiboy- ♂ (110 bytes) () 03/31/2011 postreply 00:11:54

• Thanks for sharing. -北京二号- ♀ (220 bytes) () 03/31/2011 postreply 00:23:23

• 第一次听到这首英诗，谢朗诵，你的声音有磁性。 -紫君- ♀ (1442 bytes) () 03/31/2011 postreply 06:23:23