<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37165" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Misplaced Sympathy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little Benny sat one evening,<br>Looking o'er his picture-book:<br>Suddenly his mother noticed<br>On his face a troubled look.<br>He was gazing on a picture, —<br>"Christians in the early days,"<br>When the cruel tyrant Nero<br>Harassed them in various ways.<br>'Twas a family of Christians,<br>Torn by lions fierce and wild,<br>In the horrible arena,<br>Which had thus distressed the child.<br>Thinking it a golden moment<br>To impress his youthful mind<br>With our freedom, dearly purchased,<br>And by martyrs' blood refined,<br>His good mother told the story<br>Of their persecutions sore,<br>While he listened, all attention,<br>And the picture pondered o'er.<br>"See, my child, those hungry lions,<br>How upon the group they fall!<br>'Tis a sight, my precious darling,<br>That the bravest might appall."<br>Then, with little lip a-quiver,<br>"Mamma, look!" says little Benny:<br>"Little lion in the corner,<br>Mamma, isn't gettin' any!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Follen+Adams">Charles Follen Adams</a> from <i>Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems</i><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=37165" data-title="Misplaced Sympathy de Charles Follen Adams" data-description="Little Benny sat one evening,/Looking o'er his picture-book:/Suddenly his mother noticed/On his face a troubled look./He was gazing on a picture, —/"Christians in the early days,"/When the cruel tyrant Nero/Harassed them in various ways./'Twas a..."></div> </div> </div>

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