<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420245" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Maiden and the Flames</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was scarcely twenty one<br>on the day the Reaper came.<br>A writer of great promise; <br>Toru Dutt was her name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bengali was her native tongue, <br>but only just her first.<br>She had conversed in German, <br>written French and English verse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now she lay silent, dressed in white<br>in the company of flowers.<br>A shame it was a funeral pyre<br>and not her wedding bower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her sister, overcome with grief, <br>Her Parents both the same.<br>Her sad eyed father lit the torch<br>and consigned her to the flames.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How quickly did those flames consume<br>the girl who lived to write.<br>Her dust was carried on the winds<br>from the sacrificial site.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The beauty of her verse endures<br>and will preserve her name.<br>That's all that could be salvaged<br>of the maiden from the flames.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</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=420245" data-title="The Maiden and the Flames de John F. McCullagh" data-description="She was scarcely twenty one on the day the Reaper came. A writer of great promise; Toru Dutt was her name. Bengali was her native tongue, but only just her first. She had conversed in German, written French and English verse. Now she lay sile..."></div> </div> </div>

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