Arthur Seymour John Tessimond

Here you will find the Poem Epitaph For Our Children of poet Arthur Seymour John Tessimond

Epitaph For Our Children

Blame us for these who were cradled and rocked in our chaos;
Watching our sidelong watching, fearing our fear;
Playing their blind-man's-bluff in our gutted mansions,
Their follow-my-leader on a stair that ended in air.


Submitted by Stephen Fryer