"I Am So Sorry"

I Am So Sorry

A child came to her father yesterday,
        Wet-eyed and trembling-lipped, yet un-afraid,
        And pardon for some wrong deed sweetly prayed.
"I am so sorry," low we heard her say;
"Father, I did not mean to disobey."
        Quickly the sorrowful father bent and smiled,
        And drew her to his breast. Then, reconciled,
The little girl went singing on her way.
So, dearest Father, I—so old in years,
        And yet a child in that I blindly do
Wrong deeds that hurt and grieve you every day,
Come, unafraid, yet trembling in tears . . .
        "I am so sorry I have troubled you,
Father, I did not mean to disobey."


"I Am So Sorry" as it appears in Ella Higginson's The Voice of April-Land and Other Poems (1903).

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