<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390839" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Armenian Folk-Song--The Stork</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Welcome, O truant stork!<br>And where have you been so long?<br>And do you bring that grace of spring<br>That filleth my heart with song?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Descend upon my roof--<br>Bide on this ash content;<br>I would have you know what cruel woe<br>Befell me when you went.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All up in the moody sky<br>(A shifting threat o'er head!)<br>They were breaking the snow and bidding it go<br>Cover the beautiful dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Came snow on garden spot,<br>Came snow on mere and wold,<br>Came the withering breath of white robed death,<br>And the once warm earth was cold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stork, the tender rose tree,<br>That bloometh when you are here,<br>Trembled and sighed like a waiting bride--<br>Then drooped on a virgin bier.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the brook that hath seen you come<br>Leaps forth with a hearty shout,<br>And the crocus peeps from the bed where it sleeps<br>To know what the noise is about.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Welcome, O honest friend!<br>And bide on my roof content;<br>For my heart would sing of the grace of spring,<br>When the winter of woe is spent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</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=390839" data-title="Armenian Folk-Song--The Stork de Eugene Field" data-description="Welcome, O truant stork! And where have you been so long? And do you bring that grace of spring That filleth my heart with song? Descend upon my roof-- Bide on this ash content; I would have you know what cruel woe Befell me when you went. All u..."></div> </div> </div>

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