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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384629" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Gossips</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A rose in my garden, the sweetest and fairest,<br>Was hanging her head through the long golden hours;<br>And early one morning I saw her tears falling,<br>And heard a low gossiping talk in the bowers.<br>The yellow Nasturtium, a spinster all faded,<br>Was telling a Lily what ailed the poor Rose:<br>'That wild roving Bee who was hanging about her,<br>Has jilted her squarely, as everyone knows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'I knew when he came, with his singing and sighing,<br>His airs and his speeches so fine and so sweet,<br>Just how it would end; but no one would believe me,<br>For all were quite ready to fall at his feet.'<br>'Indeed, you are wrong,' said the Lily-belle proudly,<br>'I cared nothing for him, he called on me once,<br>And would have come often, no doubt, if I'd asked him,<br>But, though he was handsome, I thought him a dunce.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Now, now, that's not true,' cried the tall Oleander.<br>'He has traveled and seen every flower that grows;<br>And one who has supped in the garden of princes,<br>We all might have known would not wed with the Rose.'<br>'But wasn't she proud when he showed her attention?<br>And she let him caress her,' said sly Mignonette;<br>'And I used to see it and blush for her folly.<br>The silly thing thinks he will come to her yet.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'I thought he was splendid,' said pretty pert Larkspur,<br>'So dark, and so grand with that gay cloak of gold;<br>But he tried once to kiss me, the impudent fellow!<br>And I got offended; I thought him too bold.'<br>'Oh, fie!' laughed the Almond, 'that does for a story.<br>Though I hang down my head, yet I see all that goes;<br>And I saw you reach out trying hard to detain him,<br>But he just tapped your cheek and flew by to the Rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'He cared nothing for her, he only was flirting<br>To while away time, as I very well knew;<br>So I turned a cold shoulder on all his advances,<br>Because I was certain his heart was untrue.'<br>'The Rose is served right for her folly in trusting<br>An oily-tongued stranger,' quoth proud Columbine.<br>'I knew what he was, and thought once I would warn her,<br>But of course the affair was no business of mine.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Oh, well,' cried the Peony, shrugging her shoulders,<br>'I saw all along that the Bee was a flirt;<br>But the Rose has been always so praised and so petted,<br>I thought a good lesson would do her no hurt.'<br>Just then came the sound of a love-song sung sweetly,<br>I saw my proud Rose lifting up her bowed head;<br>And the talk of the gossips was hushed in a moment,<br>And the flowers all listened to hear what was said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And the dark, handsome Bee, with his cloak o'er his shoulder,<br>Came swift through the sunlight and kissed the sad Rose,<br>And whispered: 'My darling, I've roved the world over,<br>And you are the loveliest flower that grows.'</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>
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Was hanging her head through the long golden hours;
And early one morning I saw her tears falling,
And heard a low gossiping talk in the bowers.
The yellow Nasturtium, a spinster all faded,
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