<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427782" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Request to a Year</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If the year is meditating a suitable gift, <br>I should like it to be the attitude <br>of my great- great- grandmother, <br>legendary devotee of the arts, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">who having eight children <br>and little opportunity for painting pictures, <br>sat one day on a high rock <br>beside a river in Switzerland </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and from a difficult distance viewed <br>her second son, balanced on a small ice flow,drift down the current toward a waterfall <br>that struck rock bottom eighty feet below, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">while her second daughter, impeded, <br>no doubt, by the petticoats of the day, <br>stretched out a last-hope alpenstock <br>(which luckily later caught him on his way). </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing, it was evident, could be done; <br>And with the artist's isolating eye <br>My great-great-grandmother hastily sketched the scene. <br>The sketch survives to prove the story by. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Year, if you have no Mother's day present planned, <br>Reach back and bring me the firmness of her hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Judith+Wright">Judith Wright</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=427782" data-title="Request to a Year de Judith Wright" data-description="If the year is meditating a suitable gift, I should like it to be the attitude of my great- great- grandmother, legendary devotee of the arts, who having eight children and little opportunity for painting pictures, sat one day on a high roc..."></div> </div> </div>

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