<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357819" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Broken-Teapot</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mum's bit of egg money on the mantelpiece<br>In the broken teapot in the olden days,<br>Hardly earned and hoarded there,<br>Much content afforded there<br>Long before inspectors came and bureaucratic ways.<br>But science by the barn-door rules the farmer's lot<br>And Mum's bit of egg-money dwindles in the pot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ever since the first years this was mother's perquisite,<br>Eggs daily gathered by the old barn door,<br>From the stable gathered in,<br>From the shed and fodder bin,<br>Carted in and traded at the small town store;<br>Gathered from the wayward hen laying far afield<br>As the new-cleared acres gave their golden yield.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Long it was a stand-by while the kids were little ones <br>Mum's broken teapot resting on the shelf <br>Some print to make a dress for Lil,<br>Sunday boots for Joe and Bill,<br>A loan to Dad and, now and then, a trifle for herself:<br>Growing heavy Christmas time by dint of watchful thrift<br>To buy a little Christmas cheer and here and there a gift.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Mum's bit of egg-money grows a thing of history,<br>And Mum's broken teapot an heirloom now indeed,<br>Since Science ousts the picturesque;<br>And Dad has bought an office desk<br>To puzzle o'er official rules and size and weight and breed.<br>But Mum is brooding darkly o'er the forbidden egg,<br>Which, like a furtive gangsteress, she threatens to bootleg.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357819" data-title="The Broken-Teapot de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Mum's bit of egg money on the mantelpiece In the broken teapot in the olden days, Hardly earned and hoarded there, Much content afforded there Long before inspectors came and bureaucratic ways. But science by the barn-door rules the farmer's lot A..."></div> </div> </div>

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