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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355223" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Broken Doll</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An infant is a selfish sprite;<br>But what of that? the sweet delight<br>Which from participation springs,<br>Is quite unknown to these young things.<br>We elder children then will smile<br>At our dear little John awhile,<br>And bear with him, until he see<br>There is a sweet felicity<br>In pleasing more than only one<br>Dear little craving selfish John.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He laughs, and thinks it a fine joke,<br>That he our new wax doll has broke.<br>Anger will never teach him better;<br>We will the spirit and the letter<br>Of courtesy to him display<br>By taking in a friendly way<br>These baby frolics; till he learn<br>True sport from mischief to discern.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Reproof a parent's province is:<br>A sister's discipline is this;<br>By studied kindness to effect<br>A little brother's young respect.<br>What is a doll? a fragile toy.<br>What is its loss? if the dear boy,<br>Who half perceives he's done amiss,<br>Retain impression of the kiss<br>That followed instant on his cheek;<br>If the kind, loving words we speak<br>Of 'Never mind it,' 'We forgive,'-<br>If these in his short memory live<br>Only, perchance, for half a day-<br>Who minds a doll-if that should lay<br>The first impression in his mind<br>That sisters are to brothers kind?<br>For thus the broken doll may prove<br>Foundation to fraternal love.</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>
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Which from participation springs,
Is quite unknown to these young things.
We elder children then will smile
At our dear little John awhile,
And bear with him, until he see
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