• Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.285