<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427737" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Snowman in the Yard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Judge's house has a splendid porch, with pillars and steps of stone,<br>And the Judge has a lovely flowering hedge that came from across the seas;<br>In the Hales' garage, you could put my house and everything I own,<br>And the Hales have a lawn like an emerald and a row of poplar trees.<br>Now I have only a little house, and only a little lot,<br>And only a few square yards of lawn, with dandelions starred;<br>But when Winter comes, I have something there that the Judge and the Hales have not,<br>And it's better worth having than all their wealth--it's a snowman in the yard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Judge's money brings architects to make his mansion fair;<br>The Hales have seven gardeners to make their roses grow;<br>The Judge can get his trees from Spain and France and everywhere,<br>And raise his orchids under glass in the midst of all the snow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I have something no architect or gardener ever made,<br>A thing that is shaped by the busy touch of little mittened hands:<br>And the Judge would give up his lonely estate, where the level snow is laid<br>For the tiny house with the trampled yard, the yard where the snowman stands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They say that after Adam and Eve were driven away in tears<br>To toil and suffer their life-time through, because of the sin they sinned,<br>The Lord made Winter to punish them for half their exiled years,<br>To chill their blood with the snow, and pierce their flesh with the icy wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we who inherit the primal curse, and labour for our bread,<br>Have yet, thank God, the gift of Home, though Eden's gate is barred:<br>And through the Winter's crystal veil, Love's roses blossom red,<br>For him who lives in a house that has a snowman in the yard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Joyce+Kilmer">Joyce Kilmer</a> from <i>Main Street and Other Poems</i><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=427737" data-title="The Snowman in the Yard de Joyce Kilmer" data-description="The Judge's house has a splendid porch, with pillars and steps of stone,/And the Judge has a lovely flowering hedge that came from across the seas;/In the Hales' garage, you could put my house and everything I own,/And the Hales have a lawn like a..."></div> </div> </div>

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