<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447461" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Nuns And The Lilies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lilies in the garden walk <br>Are out today. <br>The nuns all came to look at them, <br>To look and say <br>They wouldn't last to deck the crib <br>On Christmas day. <br>They had outstripped the Holy Child. <br>And yet at least <br>They should have been for Ursula, <br>Lucy, Joan, Perpetua, <br>Have glittered on the altar through some virgin feast. <br>The lilies in the convent walk <br>Are fair to see. <br>They have forgotten baby Christs, <br>It seems to me. <br>They laugh and toss their royal heads <br>In ecstasy. <br>And still they say I must believe <br>Like princely churls <br>For all your lovely purity, <br>Catherine, Mary, Dorothy, <br>We will not die as altar flowers for dreaming girls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lesbia+Harford">Lesbia Harford</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=447461" data-title="The Nuns And The Lilies de Lesbia Harford" data-description="The lilies in the garden walk Are out today. The nuns all came to look at them, To look and say They wouldn't last to deck the crib On Christmas day. They had outstripped the Holy Child. And yet at least They should have been for Ursula, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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