<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384566" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sign-Board</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will paint you a sign, rumseller,<br>And hang it above your door;<br>A truer and better signboard<br>Than ever you had before.<br>I will paint with the skill of a master,<br>And many shall pause to see<br>This wonderful piece of painting,<br>So like the reality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I will paint yourself, rumseller,<br>As you wait for that fair young boy,<br>Just in the morning of manhood,<br>A mother's pride and joy.<br>He has no thought of stopping,<br>But you greet him with a smile,<br>And you seem so blithe and friendly,<br>That he pauses to chat awhile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I will paint you again, rumseller,<br>I will paint you as you stand,<br>With a foaming glass of liquor<br>Extended in your hand.<br>He wavers, but you urge him-<br>Drink, pledge me just this one!<br>And he takes the glass and drains it,<br>And the hellish work is done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And next I will paint a drunkard-<br>Only a year has flown,<br>But into that loathsome creature<br>The fair young boy has grown.<br>The work was sure and rapid.<br>I will paint him as he lies<br>In a torpid, drunken slumber,<br>Under the wintry skies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I will paint the form of the mother<br>As she kneels at her darling's side,<br>Her beautiful boy that was dearer<br>Than all the world beside.<br>I will paint the shape of a coffin,<br>Labeled with one word-'lost,'<br>I will paint all this, rumseller,<br>And will paint it free of cost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The sin and the shame and the sorrow,<br>The crime and the want and the woe<br>That are born there in your workshop,<br>No hand can paint, you know.<br>But I'll paint you a sign, rumseller,<br>And many shall pause to view<br>This wonderful swinging signboard,<br>So terribly, fearfully true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</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=384566" data-title="Sign-Board de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="I will paint you a sign, rumseller, And hang it above your door; A truer and better signboard Than ever you had before. I will paint with the skill of a master, And many shall pause to see This wonderful piece of painting, So like the reality. I..."></div> </div> </div>

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