"This wrong was by my father done
To me, and not by me to one "
These are the words of Al-Maari, an Arabian poet. He wished he had never been born. He blamed his father for the 'wrong' of giving birth to him. He never had children. In this he anticipated Thomas Hardy, who wrote about an unborn child:
"Breathe not, hid heart! Cease silently!"
Both poets felt life was a mistake. Hardy says:
“Ere nescience be reaffirmed, how long, how long?”
It is interesting that Al-Maari anticipated Hardy by several hundred years.
And both poets felt that it is worse than a crime to bring children into this world.
We say, what a cute child! without realizing the child will suffer misery as it grows up, and grows old with Alzheimer’s disease and dies of cancer.
To me, and not by me to one "
These are the words of Al-Maari, an Arabian poet. He wished he had never been born. He blamed his father for the 'wrong' of giving birth to him. He never had children. In this he anticipated Thomas Hardy, who wrote about an unborn child:
"Breathe not, hid heart! Cease silently!"
Both poets felt life was a mistake. Hardy says:
“Ere nescience be reaffirmed, how long, how long?”
It is interesting that Al-Maari anticipated Hardy by several hundred years.
And both poets felt that it is worse than a crime to bring children into this world.
We say, what a cute child! without realizing the child will suffer misery as it grows up, and grows old with Alzheimer’s disease and dies of cancer.
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