<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391805" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jamie's Puzzle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was grief within our household <br>Because of a vacant chair. <br>Our mother, so loved and precious, <br>No longer was sitting there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our hearts grew heavy with sorrow, <br>Our eyes with tears were blind, <br>And little Jamie was wondering, <br>Why we were left behind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We had told our little darling, <br>Of the land of love and light, <br>Of the saints all crowned with glory, <br>And enrobed in spotless white. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We said that our precious mother, <br>Had gone to that land so fair, <br>To dwell with beautiful angels, <br>And to be forever there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the child was sorely puzzled, <br>Why dear grandmamma should go <br>To dwell in a stranger city, <br>When her children loved her so. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But again the mystic angel <br>Came with swift and silent tread, <br>And our sister, Jamie's mother, <br>Was enrolled among the dead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To us the mystery deepened, <br>To Jamie it seemed more clear; <br>Grandma, he said, must be lonesome, <br>And mamma has gone to her. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the question lies unanswered <br>In our little Jamie's mind, <br>Why she should go to our mother, <br>And leave her children behind; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To dwell in that lovely city, <br>From all that was dear to part, <br>From children who loved to nestle <br>So closely around her heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear child, like you, we are puzzled, <br>With problems that still remain; <br>But think in the great hereafter <br>Their meaning will all be plain.</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> <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=391805" data-title="Jamie's Puzzle de Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" data-description="There was grief within our household Because of a vacant chair. Our mother, so loved and precious, No longer was sitting there. Our hearts grew heavy with sorrow, Our eyes with tears were blind, And little Jamie was wondering, Why we were ..."></div> </div> </div>

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