<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From small begginings story poem for M'lady Ernestine</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A cairn of stones that’s added to<br>By travellers who pass this way.<br>Although today they’re very few.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Few realise the cairn exists<br>Now no one can remember why<br>But the custom still persists</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Originally the cairn was built<br> to mark the spot where someone died.<br>Perhaps assuaging a sense of guilt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The killing was an accident <br>a blow which was in anger struck.<br>There was no murderous intent</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He killed his friend and he confessed<br>The man was truly penitent.<br>So obviously that he impressed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The learned judge who heard the case.<br>Who ruled that he was innocent <br>of murder but that he still must face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A whole life sentence of regret<br> and that was punishment enough.<br>This old legend lingers yet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each time he passed the spot<br> he placed a stone upon the cairn.<br> Which whilst he lived grew quite a lot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It towers now some eight feet high.<br>As people added their tribute <br>although no one remembers why.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although it’s off the beaten track<br> one day you might just pass this way<br> and add your pebble to the stack</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>It has become a monument<br> a cairn of stone sure to impress.<br>Yet it began by accident</div><div style="margin:10px 0">12/10/2009<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=413895" data-title="From small begginings story poem for M'lady Ernestine de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description=". A cairn of stones that’s added to By travellers who pass this way. Although today they’re very few. Few realise the cairn exists Now no one can remember why But the custom still persists Originally the cairn was built to mark the spot w..."></div> </div> </div>

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