<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374036" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gratitude</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I found a starving cat in the street:<br>It cried for food and a place by the fire.<br>I carried it home, and I strove to meet<br>The claims of its desire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And since its desire was a little fish,<br>A little hay and a little milk,<br>I gave it cream in a silver dish<br>And a basket lined with silk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when we came to the grateful pause<br>When it should have fawned on the hand that fed,<br>It turned to a devil all teeth and claws,<br>Scratched me and bit me and fled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To pay for the fish and the milk and the hay<br>With a purr had been an easy task:<br>But its hate and my blood were required to pay<br>For the gifts that it did not ask.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edith+Nesbit">Edith Nesbit</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=374036" data-title="Gratitude de Edith Nesbit" data-description="I found a starving cat in the street: It cried for food and a place by the fire. I carried it home, and I strove to meet The claims of its desire. And since its desire was a little fish, A little hay and a little milk, I gave it cream in a silver..."></div> </div> </div>

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