Why is it, God, that mother's hearts are made <br />So very deep and wide? <br />How does it help the world that we should hold <br />Such swelling floods of pain till we are old, <br />Because when we were young one grave was laid– <br />One baby died?<br /><br />Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-question-38/