<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408961" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Water Lily</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A lonely young wife<br>In her dreaming discerns<br>A lily-decked pool<br>With a border of ferns,<br>And a beautiful child,<br>With butterfly wings,<br>Trips down to the edge of the water and sings:<br>‘Come, mamma! come!<br>‘Quick! follow me—<br>‘Step out on the leaves of the water-lily!’ <br>And the lonely young wife,<br>Her heart beating wild,<br>Cries, ‘Wait till I come,<br>‘Till I reach you, my child!’<br>But the beautiful child<br>With butterfly wings<br>Steps out on the leaves of the lily and sings:<br>‘Come, mamma! come!<br>‘Quick! follow me!<br>‘And step on the leaves of the water-lily! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the wife in her dreaming<br>Steps out on the stream,<br>But the lily leaves sink<br>And she wakes from her dream.<br>Ah, the waking is sad,<br>For the tears that it brings,<br>And she knows ’tis her dead baby’s spirit that sings:<br>‘Come, mamma! come!<br>‘Quick! follow me!<br>‘Step out on the leaves of the water-lily!’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</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=408961" data-title="The Water Lily de Henry Lawson" data-description="A lonely young wife In her dreaming discerns A lily-decked pool With a border of ferns, And a beautiful child, With butterfly wings, Trips down to the edge of the water and sings: ‘Come, mamma! come! ‘Quick! follow me— ‘Step out on the lea..."></div> </div> </div>

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