<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345779" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bottom Drawer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the best chamber of the house,<br>Shut up in dim, uncertain light,<br>There stood an antique chest of drawers,<br>Of foreign wood, with brasses bright.<br>One day a woman, frail and gray,<br>Stepped totteringly across the floor--<br>'Let in,' said she, 'the light of day,<br>Then, Jean, unlock the bottom drawer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The girl, in all youth's loveliness,<br>Knelt down with eager, curious face;<br>Perchance she dreamt of Indian silks,<br>Of jewels, and of rare old lace.<br>But when the summer sunshine fell<br>Upon the treasures hoarded there,<br>The tears rushed to her tender eyes,<br>Her heart was solemn as a prayer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Dear Grandmamma,' she softly sighed,<br>Lifted a withered rose and palm;<br>But on the elder face was naught<br>But sweet content and peaceful calm.<br>Leaning upon her staff, she gazed<br>Upon a baby's half-worn shoe;<br>A little frock of finest lawn;<br>A hat with tiny bows of blue;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A ball made fifty years ago;<br>A little glove; a tasselled cap;<br>A half-done 'long division' sum;<br>Some school-books fastened with a strap.<br>She touched them all, with trembling lips--<br>'How much,' she said, 'the heart can bear!<br>Ah, Jean! I thought that I should die<br>The day that first I laid them there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But now it seems so good to know<br>That through these weary, troubled years<br>Their hearts have been untouched by grief,<br>Their eyes have been unstained by tears.<br>Dear Jean, we see with clearer sight<br>When earthly life is almost o'er;<br>Those children wait me in the skies,<br>For whom I locked the sacred drawer.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Americas">Anonymous Americas</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=345779" data-title="The Bottom Drawer de Anonymous Americas" data-description="In the best chamber of the house, Shut up in dim, uncertain light, There stood an antique chest of drawers, Of foreign wood, with brasses bright. One day a woman, frail and gray, Stepped totteringly across the floor-- 'Let in,' said she, 'the ligh..."></div> </div> </div>

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