<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355220" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Beggar-Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Abject, stooping, old, and wan,<br>See yon wretched beggar-man;<br>Once a father's hopeful heir,<br>Once a mother's tender care.<br>When too young to understand<br>He but scorched his little hand,<br>By the candle's flaming light<br>Attracted, dancing, spiral, bright,<br>Clasping fond her darling round,<br>A thousand kisses healed the wound.<br>Now abject, stooping, old, and wan,<br>No mother tends the beggar-man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Then nought too good for him to wear,<br>With cherub face and flaxen hair,<br>In fancy's choicest gauds arrayed,<br>Cap of lace with rose to aid,<br>Milk-white hat and feather blue,<br>Shoes of red, and coral too<br>With silver bells to please his ear,<br>And charm the frequent ready tear.<br>Now abject, stooping, old, and wan,<br>Neglected is the beggar-man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>See the boy advance in age,<br>And learning spreads her useful page;<br>In vain! for giddy pleasure calls,<br>And shows the marbles, tops, and balls.<br>What's learning to the charms of play?<br>The indulgent tutor must give way.<br>A heedless wilful dunce, and wild,<br>The parents' fondness spoiled the child;<br>The youth in vagrant courses ran;<br>Now abject, stooping, old, and wan,<br>Their fondling is the beggar-man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</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=355220" data-title="The Beggar-Man de Charles Lamb" data-description="Abject, stooping, old, and wan, See yon wretched beggar-man; Once a father's hopeful heir, Once a mother's tender care. When too young to understand He but scorched his little hand, By the candle's flaming light Attracted, dancing, spiral, bright,..."></div> </div> </div>

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