<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464590" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Mother Smiled</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the spheres are sooty sable, <br>Man has adulterated Nature with His murky works, <br>Black rains pour down from the heavy clouds, <br>And rain-drops fall down not to wash <br>But to discolour and deform us more, <br>To broaden blackness on the surface of the Earth, <br>The downpour seems to be <br>The harvest of our own transgressions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! I remember the time of my childhood, <br>When polluted contents <br>Had not enveloped yet rotundity of the Earth.<br>In summer and spring times often after the rainfall, <br>When the skies around the Ball became too clear, <br>I felt enclosed in a huge transparent multicolour globe, <br>And discovered the rainbow in the sky.<br> <br>While standing on the Earth I imagined, <br>The Old Mother of humanity oscillating with full splendour<br>On the swing made of ropes of seven colours, <br>Smiling on contentment of the children underneath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Muhammad+Shanazar">Muhammad Shanazar</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=464590" data-title="The Old Mother Smiled de Muhammad Shanazar" data-description="Now the spheres are sooty sable, Man has adulterated Nature with His murky works, Black rains pour down from the heavy clouds, And rain-drops fall down not to wash But to discolour and deform us more, To broaden blackness on the surface of th..."></div> </div> </div>

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