Here, the issue in this poem is grief, how the mother and father each express how they deal with the death of their child.

这首诗谈论的问题很悲伤，这个父亲和母亲表达,他们对死去孩子的处理方式。

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With each passing day the likelihood they had met an untimely death grew.

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