<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353751" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cradle-Song For My Son Carl</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little Carl, sleep soft and sweet:<br>Thou'lt soon enough be waking;<br>Soon enough ill days thou'lt meet,<br>Their bitterness partaking.<br>Earth's an isle with grief o'ercast;<br>Breathe our best, death comes at last,<br>We but dust forsaking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once, where flowed a peaceful brook<br>Through a rye-field's stubble,<br>Stood a little boy to look<br>At himself; his double.<br>Sweet the picture was to see;<br>All at once it ceased to be;<br>Vanished like a bubble!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thus it is with life, my pet,<br>And thus the years go flying;<br>Live we wisely, gaily, yet<br>There's no escape from dying.<br>Little Carl on this must muse<br>When the blossoms bright he views<br>On spring's bosom lying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slumber, little friend so wee;<br>Joy thy joy is bringing.<br>Clipped from paper thou shalt see<br>A sleigh, and horses springing;<br>Then a house of cards so tall<br>We will build and see it fall,<br>And little songs be singing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Carl+Michael+Bellman">Carl Michael Bellman</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=353751" data-title="Cradle-Song For My Son Carl de Carl Michael Bellman" data-description="Little Carl, sleep soft and sweet: Thou'lt soon enough be waking; Soon enough ill days thou'lt meet, Their bitterness partaking. Earth's an isle with grief o'ercast; Breathe our best, death comes at last, We but dust forsaking. Once, where flowed..."></div> </div> </div>

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