A translated Dutch Poem by a well known female childrens book writer. Her work was translated into several languages.

Please bear with me for the translation.

Romanticism

Everytime I encounter the word romanticism
I think of my father
Who was building an aeroplane of concrete on his attic.
He told everybody that it really could fly
if it hadn't been too big to fit through the windowpane.

A.M.G Schmidt

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