<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116584" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Carpenter's Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My lot grew lighter day by day;<br>The children grew apace;<br>I built a little house last May--<br>No palace like that place.<br>And--"Father," said she, "sure you know<br>That once we ate dry bread?<br>Into our own house now we go!"--<br>The mother, she is dead!<br> <br>Her house the undertaker made,<br>And not the carpenter;<br>My grace unsaid, the pastor prayed<br>In loud tones over her.<br>The day that's spent with merriment,<br>'Mid blossoms blue and red,<br>No music lent--my heart was rent!--<br>The mother, she is dead.<br> <br>We pulled together many a year;<br>Like old bird-mates were we;<br>But who e'er thinks of dying here<br>While both together be?<br>Fast barred is every window-blind--<br>I care not what is said;<br>Yes, sell the house! I do not mind--<br>The mother, she is dead!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Carmen+Sylva">Carmen Sylva</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=116584" data-title="The Carpenter's Song de Carmen Sylva" data-description="My lot grew lighter day by day;/The children grew apace;/I built a little house last May--/No palace like that place./And--"Father," said she, "sure you know/That once we ate dry bread?/Into our own house now we go!"--/The mother, she is dead!/ /H..."></div> </div> </div>

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