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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391798" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Going East</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She came from the East a fair, young bride, <br>With a light and a bounding heart, <br>To find in the distant West a home <br>With her husband to make a start. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He builded his cabin far away, <br>Where the prairie flower bloomed wild; <br>Her love made lighter all his toil, <br>And joy and hope around him smiled. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She plied her hands to life's homely tasks, <br>And helped to build his fortunes up; <br>While joy and grief, like bitter and sweet, <br>Were mingled and mixed in her cup. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He sowed in his fields of golden grain, <br>All the strength of his manly prime; <br>Nor music of birds, nor brooks, nor bees, <br>Was as sweet as the dollar's chime. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She toiled and waited through weary years <br>For the fortune that came at length; <br>But toil and care and hope deferred, <br>Had stolen and wasted her strength. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cabin changed to a stately home, <br>Rich carpets were hushing her tread; <br>But light was fading from her eye, <br>And the bloom from her cheek had fled. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slower and heavier grew her step, <br>While his gold and his gains increased; <br>But his proud domain had not the charm <br>Of her humble home in the East. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within her eye was a restless light, <br>And a yearning that never ceased, <br>A longing to see the dear old home <br>She had left in the distant East. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A longing to clasp her mother's hand, <br>And nestle close to her heart, <br>And to feel the heavy cares of life <br>Like the sun-kissed shadows depart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her husband was adding field to field, <br>And new wealth to his golden store; <br>And little thought the shadow of death <br>Was entering in at his door. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He had no line to sound the depths <br>Of her tears repressed and unshed; <br>Nor dreamed 'mid plenty a human heart <br>Could be starving, but not for bread. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hungry heart was stilled at last; <br>Its restless, baffled yearning ceased. <br>A lonely man sat by the bier <br>Of a corpse that was going East.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frances+Ellen+Watkins+Harper">Frances Ellen Watkins Harper</a><div class=q>
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With a light and a bounding heart, 
To find in the distant West a home 
With her husband to make a start. 

He builded his cabin far away, 
Where the prairie flower bloomed wild; 
Her love made lighter ..."></div>
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