<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383519" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Roman Doll</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(In a Museum) <br>How an image of paint and wood <br>Leaped to her life with a love's control, <br>Struck the chords of her motherhood, <br>Passionate little mother-soul! <br>Fair to her sight were the stolid eyes, <br>Dear to her toil the robes empearled. <br>She crooned it the ancient lullabies, <br>She gathered it close from the outer world. <br>They watched together, as Nero's pyres <br>Fed the haze of a hundred fires. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me in her fresh young arms she bore. <br>See, I am small, <br>Only a doll. <br>But I keep her kiss forevermore. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long and lonely the toy has lain. <br>One by one into time's abyss <br>Years have dropped as the drops of rain. <br>Yet the cycles have left us this! <br>O red-lipped mother, O mother sweet, <br>Today a sister has heard you call, <br>I saw her weep o'er the crumbling doll. <br>She knew, she knew! You had lived and smiled! <br>You had loved your dream, little Roman child! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me in her fresh young arms she bore. <br>See, I am small, <br>Only a doll. <br>But I keep her kiss forevermore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eleanor+Agnes+Lee">Eleanor Agnes Lee</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=383519" data-title="A Roman Doll de Eleanor Agnes Lee" data-description="(In a Museum) How an image of paint and wood Leaped to her life with a love's control, Struck the chords of her motherhood, Passionate little mother-soul! Fair to her sight were the stolid eyes, Dear to her toil the robes empearled. She cro..."></div> </div> </div>

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