<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115378" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Chrysalis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My little Mädchen found one day<br> A curious something in her play,<br> That was not fruit, nor flower, nor seed;<br> It was not anything that grew,<br> Or crept, or climbed, or swam, or flew;<br> Had neither legs nor wings, indeed;<br> And yet she was not sure, she said,<br> Whether it was alive or dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> She brought it in her tiny hand<br> To see if I would understand,<br> And wondered when I made reply,<br> "You've found a baby butterfly."<br> "A butterfly is not like this,"<br> With doubtful look she answered me.<br> So then I told her what would be<br> Some day within the chrysalis:<br> How, slowly, in the dull brown thing<br> Now still as death, a spotted wing,<br> And then another, would unfold,<br> Till from the empty shell would fly<br> A pretty creature, by and by,<br> All radiant in blue and gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "And will it, truly?" questioned she--<br> Her laughing lips and eager eyes<br> All in a sparkle of surprise--<br> "And shall your little Mädchen see?"<br> "She shall!" I said. How could I tell<br> That ere the worm within its shell<br> Its gauzy, splendid wings had spread,<br> My little Mädchen would be dead?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> To-day the butterfly has flown,--<br> She was not here to see it fly,--<br> And sorrowing I wonder why<br> The empty shell is mine alone.<br> Perhaps the secret lies in this:<br> I too had found a chrysalis,<br> And Death that robbed me of delight<br> Was but the radiant creature's flight!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Emily+Bradley">Mary Emily Bradley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115378" data-title="A Chrysalis de Mary Emily Bradley" data-description="My little Mädchen found one day/ A curious something in her play,/ That was not fruit, nor flower, nor seed;/ It was not anything that grew,/ Or crept, or climbed, or swam, or flew;/ Had neither legs nor wings, indeed;/ And yet she was not sure, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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