<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390378" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Forgotten Accommodation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We climbed the narrow attic stair, <br>And entered rooms established there.<br>Thick grey dust lay across the gloom, <br>Many years spent without a broom.<br>Cobwebs hung in every place, <br>New occupants had filled the space.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a shelf sat an old birdcage, <br>Tenanted in another age.<br>Chills swept in from a broken pane, <br>Small window letting in the rain.<br>A rickety stained brocade chair, <br>Seat and back were now threadbare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Curtains frayed along their edges, <br>Hanging crooked. Also ledges<br>Nailed up on the damp crumbling walls, <br>Odour of abandoned mothballs.<br>Wallpaper, once with roses pink, <br>Now gave off a horrendous stink.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forgotten accommodation, <br>In this lonely bleak location.<br>Empty now of occupation, <br>Who slept here, what was their station.<br>Just how hard was their daily grind, <br>So much history we could find.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something scuttled along the floor, <br>Down the steps to the corridor.<br>A resident we had no doubt, <br>Some little local layabout<br>Who we had unkindly disturbed, <br>Leaving so quickly quite perturbed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We climbed back down the attic stair, <br>Away from this poor mouse’s lair, <br>Back to the present and fresh air, <br>Off down a pleasant thoroughfare.<br>Happy that we wouldn’t have to see, <br>What their life turned out to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ernestine+Northover">Ernestine Northover</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=390378" data-title="Forgotten Accommodation de Ernestine Northover" data-description="We climbed the narrow attic stair, And entered rooms established there. Thick grey dust lay across the gloom, Many years spent without a broom. Cobwebs hung in every place, New occupants had filled the space. On a shelf sat an old birdcage, T..."></div> </div> </div>

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