<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416660" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jack-In-The-Box</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">_(Grandfather, musing.)_</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In childish days! O memory,<br>You bring such curious things to me!--<br>Laughs to the lip--tears to the eye,<br>In looking on the gifts that lie<br>Like broken playthings scattered o'er<br>Imagination's nursery floor!<br>Did these old hands once click the key<br>That let 'Jack's' box-lid upward fly,<br>And that blear-eyed, fur-whiskered elf<br>Leap, as though frightened at himself,<br>And quiveringly lean and stare<br>At me, his jailer, laughing there?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A child then! Now--I only know<br>They call me very old; and so<br>They will not let me have my way,--<br>But uselessly I sit all day<br>Here by the chimney-jamb, and poke<br>The lazy fire, and smoke and smoke,<br>And watch the wreaths swoop up the flue,<br>And chuckle--ay, I often do--<br>Seeing again, all vividly,<br>Jack-in-the-box leap, as in glee<br>To see how much he looks like me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">... They talk. I can't hear what they say--<br>But I am glad, clean through and through<br>Sometimes, in fancying that they<br>Are saying, 'Sweet, that fancy strays<br>In age back to our childish days!'</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=416660" data-title="Jack-In-The-Box de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="_(Grandfather, musing.)_ In childish days! O memory, You bring such curious things to me!-- Laughs to the lip--tears to the eye, In looking on the gifts that lie Like broken playthings scattered o'er Imagination's nursery floor! Did these old ha..."></div> </div> </div>

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