Poem

[alidoc]

Years ago on radio 4 women's hour they read " poem to an aborted child" I have never been able to find more information on this, does anyone have any more details that would allow me to track it down. Thank you

[boreas]

Could it be this?

"By the Babe Unborn"

by G.K. Chesterton



If trees were tall and grasses short,
As in some crazy tale,
If here and there a sea were blue
Beyond the breaking pale,

If a fixed fire hung in the air
To warm me one day through,
If deep green hair grew on great hills,
I know what I should do.

In dark I lie; dreaming that there
Are great eyes cold or kind,
And twisted streets and silent doors,
And living men behind.

Let storm clouds come: better an hour,
And leave to weep and fight,
Than all the ages I have ruled
The empires of the night.

I think that if they gave me leave
Within the world to stand,
I would be good through all the day
I spent in fairyland.

They should not hear a word from me
Of selfishness or scorn,
If only I could find the door,
If only I were born.

[Baldric]

???

http://www.woestowows.org/hope/abortion/abortionpoem.html

[alidoc]

Sorry to be late in replying, I don't think it is either of these as I think the baby in the poem had Down syndrome.