<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Robin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The robin rested, looking back<br>At me, while I looked out.<br>For there I stood, all dressed in black, <br>No hope and full of doubt...<br>Just like a statue, so forlorn, <br>No focus at that time...<br>Weak as the day that I was born<br>With one huge hill to climb...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My loneliness was hard to bear, <br>No friends, no family...<br>No sweetheart stood with me to share<br>The loss, the tragedy...<br>The robin sang despite the cold<br>And greyness of the day...<br>As if with faith as good as gold, <br>He soothed the pain away...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That tiny creature brought me hope<br>No heavenly choir could sing...<br>As if to help my heart to cope, <br>It waved with just one wing...<br>As if it knew life wasn't fair, <br>Yet God grants faith anew...<br>Today, by faith, I can declare, <br>Merry Christmas to you...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, October 2010.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent Xmas card<br>sketch by artist Stephen Gayford called 'Robin'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">More Stephen Gayford poems here: <br>denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Martindale">Denis Martindale</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=367492" data-title="Robin de Denis Martindale" data-description="The robin rested, looking back At me, while I looked out. For there I stood, all dressed in black, No hope and full of doubt... Just like a statue, so forlorn, No focus at that time... Weak as the day that I was born With one huge hill to climb...."></div> </div> </div>

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