<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464594" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Paragon (Mother)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A paragon of patience, <br>A model of sacrifice, <br>Clad in clothes, <br>Rough, drab and dull.<br>Uncomplaining, silent and bland, <br>Remains busy like a bee, <br>From morn to eve with no rest<br>For the pleasure of husband<br>Who often talks to her, <br>Harsh, hard, and rude.<br>She collects dry sticks, <br>And fire wood from the forest, <br>Toiling up the steeps, <br>Walks to the home drooping, <br>The burden upon her back, <br>For the stock, <br>She labours on the farms, <br>Feed the children from the chest, <br>With the marrow and sap of bones, <br>Shields them against hunting vultures, <br>Of poverty, hunger and illness.<br>Her cottage with a small yard, <br>With a few hens, ducks and sheep, <br>And half naked shouting children, <br>Playing about bare-footed, <br>Is her Eden, the whole she gets, <br>To which she devotes, <br>Her youth, joys and existence.<br>In the dolorous work of kitchen, <br>It is pity, <br>She often gets herself burnt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strenuous labour brings on the face, <br>Wrinkles deep and long, <br>The rosy cheeks, fair fore-head, <br>The delicate lips, begin decaying, <br>Like too soon withering flowers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pay homage to the deities, <br>Grand, great and reverend, <br>Who pass away unknown, <br>Leaving behind their fragrance, <br>And fruit of struggle to the posterity.</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=464594" data-title="The Paragon (Mother) de Muhammad Shanazar" data-description="A paragon of patience, A model of sacrifice, Clad in clothes, Rough, drab and dull. Uncomplaining, silent and bland, Remains busy like a bee, From morn to eve with no rest For the pleasure of husband Who often talks to her, Harsh, hard, and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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