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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial - Whitney Rest Area, Kentucky Posted by:  YoSam.
N 36° 38.969 W 087° 21.103
16S E 468562 N 4056046
Oklahoma Bombing Memorial in the I-24 rest area
Waymark Code: WMP5G9
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 07/05/2015
Views: 5
County or quote: Christian County
Location of quote: I-24 WB m/m 93, Whitney rest area, sidewalk to travel center
Memorial erected: Memorial Day 1995
Memorial erected by: Kentucky Crushed Stone Association, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Federal Highway Administration
Memorial text: "But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper
Than the strong man in his wrath"
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Cry of the Children
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Dedicated to the victims of the
April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing
Quote comes from the last stanza of the poem
The complete poem can be read in the link below:
They look up, with their pale and sunken faces,
And their look is dread to see,
For they think you see their angels in their places,
With eyes meant for Deity;—
"How long," they say, "how long, O cruel nation,
Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, —
Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation,
And tread onward to your throne amid the mart?
Our blood splashes upward, O our tyrants,
And your purple shews your path;
But the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence
Than the strong man in his wrath !"
Address:
I-24 WB mile marker 93
Whitney Rest Area
Kentucky
Website: [Web Link]
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