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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Flowers in Winter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How strange to greet, this frosty morn, <br>In graceful counterfeit of flower, <br>These children of the meadows, born <br>Of sunshine and of showers! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How well the conscious wood retains <br>The pictures of its flower-sown home, <br>The lights and shades, the purple stains, <br>And golden hues of bloom! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a happy thought to bring <br>To the dark season's frost and rime <br>This painted memory of spring, <br>This dream of summertime. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our hearts are lighter for its sake, <br>Our fancy's age renews its youth, <br>And dim-remembered fictions take <br>The guise of present truth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A wizard of the Merrimac, - <br>So old ancestral legends say, - <br>Could call green leaf and blossom back <br>To frosted stem and spray. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dry logs of the cottage wall, <br>Beneath his touch, put out their leaves; <br>The clay-bound swallow, at his call, <br>Played round the icy eaves. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The settler saw his oaken flail <br>Take bud, and bloom before his eyes; <br>From frozen pools he saw the pale <br>Sweet summer lilies rise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To their old homes, by man profaned <br>Came the sad dryads, exiled long, <br>And through their leafy tongues complained <br>Of household use and wrong. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The beechen platter sprouted wild, <br>The pipkin wore its old-time green, <br>The cradle o'er the sleeping child <br>Became a leafy screen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haply our gentle friend hath met, <br>While wandering in her sylvan quest, <br>Haunting his native woodlands yet, <br>That Druid of the West; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And while the dew on leaf and flower <br>Glistened in the moonlight clear and still, <br>Learned the dusk wizard's spell of power, <br>And caught his trick of skill. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But welcome, be it new or old, <br>The gift which makes the day more bright, <br>And paints, upon the ground of cold <br>And darkness, warmth and light! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without is neither gold nor green; <br>Within, for birds, the birch-logs sing; <br>Yet, summer-like, we sit between <br>The autumn and the spring. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The one, with bridal blush of rose, <br>And sweetest breath of woodland balm, <br>And one whose matron lips unclose <br>In smiles of saintly calm. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fill soft and deep, O winter snow! <br>The sweet azalea's oaken dells, <br>And hide the banks where roses blow <br>And swing the azure bells! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O'erlay the amber violet's leaves, <br>The purple aster's brookside home, <br>Guard all the flowers her pencil gives <br>A live beyond their bloom. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And she, when spring comes round again, <br>By greening slope and singing flood <br>Shall wander, seeking, not in vain <br>Her darlings of the wood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a><div class=q>
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In graceful counterfeit of flower, 
These children of the meadows, born 
Of sunshine and of showers! 

How well the conscious wood retains 
The pictures of its flower-sown home, 
The lights and shades, the ..."></div>
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