<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428719" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Nurse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such innocent companionship <br>Is hers, whether she wake or sleep, <br>'Tis scarcely strange her face should wear <br>The young child's grave and innocent air. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the night long she hath by her <br>The quiet breathing, the soft stir, <br>Nor knows how in that tender place <br>The children's angels veil the face. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She wakes at dawn with bird and child<br>To earth new-washed and reconciled, <br>The hour of silence and of dew, <br>When God hath made His world anew. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She sleeps at eve, about the hour <br>Of bedtime for the bird and flower, <br>When daisies, evening primroses, <br>Know that the hour of closing is. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her daylight thoughts are all on toys <br>And games for darling girls and boys, <br>Lest they should fret, lest they should weep, <br>Strayed from their heavenly fellowship. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She is as pretty and as brown <br>As the wood's children far from town, <br>As bright-eyed, glancing, shy of men, <br>As any squirrel, any wren. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tender she is to beast and bird, <br>As in her breast some memory stirred <br>Of days when those were kin of hers <br>Who go in feathers and in furs. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A child, yet is the children's law,<br>And rules by love and rules by awe. <br>And, stern at times, is kind withal <br>As a girl-baby with her doll. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Outside the nursery door there lies <br>The world with all its griefs and sighs,<br>Its needs, its sins, its stains of sense: <br>Within is only innocence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Tynan">Katharine Tynan</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=428719" data-title="The Nurse de Katharine Tynan" data-description="Such innocent companionship Is hers, whether she wake or sleep, 'Tis scarcely strange her face should wear The young child's grave and innocent air. All the night long she hath by her The quiet breathing, the soft stir, Nor knows how in tha..."></div> </div> </div>

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