<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409124" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Fairy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you recall -- I know you do --<br>A little gift once made to you --<br>A simple basket filled with flowers,<br>All favorites of our Southern bowers?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One was a snowy myrtle-bud,<br>Another blushed as if with blood,<br>A third was pink of softest tinge,<br>Then came a disk with purple fringe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You took them with a happy smile,<br>And nursed them for a little while,<br>And once or twice perhaps you thought<br>Of the fond messages they brought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet you could not then divine<br>The promise in that gift of mine, --<br>In those bright blooms and odors sweet,<br>I laid this volume at your feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At yours, my child, who scarcely know<br>How much to your dear self I owe, --<br>Too young and innocent as yet<br>To guess in what consists the debt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore to you henceforth belong<br>These Southern asphodels of song,<br>Less MY creations than your own,<br>What praise they win are yours alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For here no fancy finds a place<br>But is an affluence of your grace; --<br>And when my songs are sweetest, then<br>A Dream like you hath touched my pen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Timrod">Henry Timrod</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=409124" data-title="To Fairy de Henry Timrod" data-description="Do you recall -- I know you do -- A little gift once made to you -- A simple basket filled with flowers, All favorites of our Southern bowers? One was a snowy myrtle-bud, Another blushed as if with blood, A third was pink of softest tinge, Then c..."></div> </div> </div>

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