<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416634" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Herr Weiser</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Herr Weiser--! Three-score-years-and-ten--,<br>A hale white rose of his country-men,<br>Transplanted here in the Hoosier loam,<br>And blossomy as his German home--<br>As blossomy and as pure and sweet<br>As the cool green glen of his calm retreat,<br>Far withdrawn from the noisy town<br>Where trade goes clamoring up and down,<br>Whose fret and fever, and stress and strife,<br>May not trouble his tranquil life!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Breath of rest, what a balmy gust--!<br>Quite of the city's heat and dust,<br>Jostling down by the winding road,<br>Through the orchard ways of his quaint abode--.<br>Tether the horse, as we onward fare<br>Under the pear-trees trailing there,<br>And thumping the wood bridge at night<br>With lumps of ripeness and lush delight,<br>Till the stream, as it maunders on till dawn,<br>Is powdered and pelted and smiled upon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Herr Weiser, with his wholesome face,<br>And the gentle blue of his eyes, and grace<br>Of unassuming honesty,<br>Be there to welcome you and me!<br>And what though the toil of the farm be stopped<br>And the tireless plans of the place be dropped,<br>While the prayerful master's knees are set<br>In beds of pansy and mignonette<br>And lily and aster and columbine,<br>Offered in love, as yours and mine--?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What, but a blessing of kindly thought,<br>Sweet as the breath of forget-me-not--!<br>What, but a spirit of lustrous love<br>White as the aster he bends above--!<br>What, but an odorous memory<br>Of the dear old man, made known to me<br>In days demanding a help like his--,<br>As sweet as the life of the lily is--<br>As sweet as the soul of a babe, bloom-wise<br>Born of a lily in paradise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</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=416634" data-title="Herr Weiser de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Herr Weiser--! Three-score-years-and-ten--, A hale white rose of his country-men, Transplanted here in the Hoosier loam, And blossomy as his German home-- As blossomy and as pure and sweet As the cool green glen of his calm retreat, Far withdrawn ..."></div> </div> </div>

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