<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407979" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Mrs. K--,</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHAT crowding thoughts around me wake,<br>What marvels in a Christmas-cake!<br>Ah say, what strange enchantment dwells<br>Enclos'd within its od'rous cells?<br>Is there no small magician bound<br>Encrusted in its snowy round?<br>For magic surely lurks in this,<br>A cake that tells of vanish'd bliss;<br>A cake that conjures up to view<br>The early scenes, when life was new;<br>When mem'ry knew no sorrows past,<br>And hope believ'd in joys that last!--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mysterious cake, whose folds contain<br>Life's calendar of bliss and pain;<br>That speaks of friends for ever fled,<br>And wakes the tears I love to shed.<br>Oft shall I breathe her cherish'd name<br>From whose fair hand the off'ring came:<br>For she recalls the artless smile<br>Of nymphs that deck my native Isle;<br>Of beauty that we love to trace,<br>Allied with tender, modest grace;<br>Of those who, while abroad they roam,<br>Retain each charm that gladdens home,<br>And whose dear friendship can impart<br>A Christmas banquet for the heart!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Helen+Maria+Williams">Helen Maria Williams</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=407979" data-title="To Mrs. K--, de Helen Maria Williams" data-description="WHAT crowding thoughts around me wake, What marvels in a Christmas-cake! Ah say, what strange enchantment dwells Enclos'd within its od'rous cells? Is there no small magician bound Encrusted in its snowy round? For magic surely lurks in this, A ca..."></div> </div> </div>

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