<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358185" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Spanish Needle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lovely dainty Spanish needle <br>With your yellow flower and white, <br>Dew bedecked and softly sleeping, <br>Do you think of me to-night? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shadowed by the spreading mango, <br>Nodding o'er the rippling stream, <br>Tell me, dear plant of my childhood, <br>Do you of the exile dream? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you see me by the brook's side <br>Catching crayfish 'neath the stone, <br>As you did the day you whispered: <br>Leave the harmless dears alone? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you see me in the meadow <br>Coming from the woodland spring <br>With a bamboo on my shoulder <br>And a pail slung from a string? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you see me all expectant <br>Lying in an orange grove, <br>While the swee-swees sing above me, <br>Waiting for my elf-eyed love? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lovely dainty Spanish needle, <br>Source to me of sweet delight, <br>In your far-off sunny southland <br>Do you dream of me to-night?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Claude+McKay">Claude McKay</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=358185" data-title="The Spanish Needle de Claude McKay" data-description="Lovely dainty Spanish needle With your yellow flower and white, Dew bedecked and softly sleeping, Do you think of me to-night? Shadowed by the spreading mango, Nodding o'er the rippling stream, Tell me, dear plant of my childhood, Do you o..."></div> </div> </div>

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