<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451098" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On my Sister Joanna's Entrance into Her 33rd Year</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On this thy natal day permit a friend -<br>A brother - with thy joys his own to blend:<br>In all gladness he would wish to share<br>As willing in thy griefs a part to bear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meekly attend the ways of higher heav'n!<br>Is much deny'd? Yet much my dear is giv'n.<br>Thy health, thy reason unimpaired remain<br>And while as new fal'n snows thy spotless fame<br>The partner of thy life, attentive - kind -<br>And blending e'en the interests of the mind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What bliss is thine when fore thy glistring eye<br>Thy lovely infant train pass jocund by!<br>The ruddy cheek, the smiling morning face<br>Denote a healthy undegenerate race:<br>In them renew'd, you'll live and live again,<br>And children's children's children lisp thy name. <br>Bright be the skies where'er my sister goes<br>Nor scowling tempests injure her repose -<br>The field of life with roses thick be strow'd<br>Nor one sharp thorn lie lurking in the road.<br>Thy ev'ry path be still a path of peace<br>And each revolving year thy joys increase;<br>Till hours and years of time itself be o'er<br>And one eternal day around thee pour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Major+Henry+Livingston+Jr.">Major Henry Livingston Jr.</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=451098" data-title="On my Sister Joanna's Entrance into Her 33rd Year de Major Henry Livingston Jr." data-description="On this thy natal day permit a friend - A brother - with thy joys his own to blend: In all gladness he would wish to share As willing in thy griefs a part to bear. Meekly attend the ways of higher heav'n! Is much deny'd? Yet much my dear is giv'..."></div> </div> </div>

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