<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355227" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Coffee Slips</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whene'er I fragrant coffee drink,<br>I on the generous Frenchman think,<br>Whose noble perseverance bore<br>The tree to Martinico's shore.<br>While yet her colony was new,<br>Her island products but a few,<br>Two shoots from off a coffee-tree<br>He carried with him o'er the sea.<br>Each little tender coffee slip<br>He waters daily in the ship,<br>And as he tends his embryo trees,<br>Feels he is raising midst the seas<br>Coffee groves, whose ample shade<br>Shall screen the dark Creolian maid.<br>But soon, alas! his darling pleasure<br>In watching this his precious treasure<br>Is like to fade,-for water fails<br>On board the ship in which he sails.<br>Now all the reservoirs are shut,<br>The crew on short allowance put;<br>So small a drop is each man's share,<br>Few leavings you may think there are<br>To water these poor coffee plants;-<br>But he supplies their gasping wants,<br>Even from his own dry parchëd lips<br>He spares it for his coffee slips.<br>Water he gives his nurslings first,<br>Ere he allays his own deep thirst<br>Lest, if he first the water sip,<br>He bear too far his eager lip.<br>He sees them droop for want of more;-<br>Yet when they reach the destined shore,<br>With pride the heroic gardener sees<br>A living sap still in his trees.<br>The islanders his praise resound;<br>Coffee plantations rise around;<br>And Martinico loads her ships<br>With produce from those dear-saved slips.</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=355227" data-title="The Coffee Slips de Charles Lamb" data-description="Whene'er I fragrant coffee drink, I on the generous Frenchman think, Whose noble perseverance bore The tree to Martinico's shore. While yet her colony was new, Her island products but a few, Two shoots from off a coffee-tree He carried with him o'..."></div> </div> </div>

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