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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420822" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wishing Bridge</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AMONG the legends sung or said<br>Along our rocky shore,<br>The Wishing Bridge of Marblehead<br>May well be sung once more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An hundred years ago (so ran<br>The old-time story) all<br>Good wishes said above its span<br>Would, soon or late, befall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If pure and earnest, never failed<br>The prayers of man or maid<br>For him who on the deep sea sailed,<br>For her at home who stayed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once thither came two girls from school,<br>And wished in childish glee<br>And one would be a queen and rule,<br>And one the world would see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time passed; with change of hopes and fears,<br>And in the self-same place,<br>Two women, gray with middle years,<br>Stood, wondering, face to face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With wakened memories, as they met,<br>They queried what had been<br>'A poor man's wife am I, and yet,'<br>Said one, 'I am a queen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My realm a little homestead is,<br>Where, lacking crown and throne,<br>I rule by loving services<br>And patient toil alone.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The other said: 'The great world lies<br>Beyond me as it lay;<br>O'er love's and duty's boundaries<br>My feet may never stray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I see but common sights of home,<br>Its common sounds I hear,<br>My widowed mother's sick-bed room<br>Sufficeth for my sphere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I read to her some pleasant page<br>Of travel far and wide,<br>And in a dreamy pilgrimage<br>We wander side by side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And when, at last, she falls asleep,<br>My book becomes to me<br>A magic glass: my watch I keep,<br>But all the world I see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'A farm-wife queen your place you fill,<br>While fancy's privilege<br>Is mine to walk the earth at will,<br>Thanks to the Wishing Bridge.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Nay, leave the legend for the truth,'<br>The other cried, 'and say<br>God gives the wishes of our youth,<br>But in His own best way!'</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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Along our rocky shore,
The Wishing Bridge of Marblehead
May well be sung once more.

An hundred years ago (so ran
The old-time story) all
Good wishes said above its span
Would, soon or late, befall.

If pure and earn..."></div>
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