<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472597" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Promise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">NOT charity we ask,<br>Nor yet thy gift refuse;<br>Please thy light fancy with the easy task<br>Only to look and choose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The little-heeded toy<br>That wins thy treasured gold<br>May be the dearest memory, holiest joy,<br>Of coming years untold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heaven rains on every heart,<br>But there its showers divide,<br>The drops of mercy choosing, as they part,<br>The dark or glowing side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One kindly deed may turn<br>The fountain of thy soul<br>To love’s sweet day-star, that shall o’er thee burn<br>Long as its currents roll.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pleasures thou hast planned,—­<br>Where shall their memory be<br>When the white angel with the freezing hand<br>Shall sit and watch by thee?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Living, thou dost not live,<br>If mercy’s spring run dry;<br>What Heaven has lent thee wilt thou freely give,<br>Dying, thou shalt not die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE promised even so! <br>To thee his lips repeat,—­<br>Behold, the tears that soothed thy sister’s woe<br>Have washed thy Master’s feet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">March 20, 1859.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</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=472597" data-title="The Promise de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="NOT charity we ask, Nor yet thy gift refuse; Please thy light fancy with the easy task Only to look and choose. The little-heeded toy That wins thy treasured gold May be the dearest memory, holiest joy, Of coming years untold. Heaven rains on ev..."></div> </div> </div>

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