<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To The New-Born</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A BLESSING on thy head, thou child of many hopes and fears!<br>A rainbow-welcome thine hath been, of mingled smiles and tears.<br>Thy father greets thee unto life, with a full and chasten'd heart,<br>For a solemn gift from God thou com'st, all precious as thou art!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see thee not asleep, fair boy, upon thy mother's breast,<br>Yet well I know how guarded there shall be thy rosy rest;<br>And how her soul with love, and prayer, and gladness, will o'erflow,<br>While bending o'er thy soft-seal'd eyes, thou dear one, well I know!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A blessing on thy gentle head! and bless'd thou art in truth,<br>For a home where God is felt, awaits thy childhood and thy youth:<br>Around thee pure and holy thoughts shall dwell as light and air,<br>And steal unto thine heart, and wake the germs now folded there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Smile on thy mother! while she feels that unto her is given,<br>In that young day-spring glance the pledge of a soul to rear for heaven!<br>Smile! and sweet peace be o'er thy sleep, joy o'er thy wakening shed!<br>Blessings and blessings evermore, fair boy! upon thy head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Felicia+Dorothea+Hemans">Felicia Dorothea Hemans</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=391683" data-title="To The New-Born de Felicia Dorothea Hemans" data-description="A BLESSING on thy head, thou child of many hopes and fears! A rainbow-welcome thine hath been, of mingled smiles and tears. Thy father greets thee unto life, with a full and chasten'd heart, For a solemn gift from God thou com'st, all precious as ..."></div> </div> </div>

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