<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Children's Hour</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Between the dark and the daylight,<br>When the night is beginning to lower,<br>Comes a pause in the day's occupation,<br>That is know as the children's hour. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hear in the chamber above me<br>The patter of little feet,<br>The sound of a door that is opened,<br>And voices soft and sweet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From my study I see in the lamplight,<br>Descending the broad hall stair,<br>Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,<br>And Edith with golden hair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A whisper and then a silence: <br>Yet I know by their merry eyes,<br>They are plotting and planning together,<br>To take me by surprise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sudden rush from the stairway,<br>A sudden raid from the hall!<br>By three doors left unguarded<br>They enter my castle wall! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They climb up into my turret <br>O'er the arms and back of my chair;<br>If I try to escape, they surround me,<br>They seem to be everywhere. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They almost devour me with kisses,<br>Their arms about me entwine,<br>Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen<br>In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti,<br>Because you have scaled the wall,<br>Such an old mustache as I am<br>Is not a match for you all? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have you fast in my fortress<br>And will not let you depart,<br>But put you down in the dungeon<br>In the round-tower of my heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there will I keep you forever,<br>Yes, forever and a day,<br>Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,<br>And moulder in dust away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</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=409692" data-title="The Children's Hour de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupation, That is know as the children's hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, An..."></div> </div> </div>

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