<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472598" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Rose And The Fern</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">LADY, life's sweetest lesson wouldst thou learn,<br>Come thou with me to Love's enchanted bower<br>High overhead the trellised roses burn;<br>Beneath thy feet behold the feathery fern,--<br>A leaf without a flower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What though the rose leaves fall? They still are sweet,<br>And have been lovely in their beauteous prime,<br>While the bare frond seems ever to repeat,<br>'For us no bud, no blossom, wakes to greet<br>The joyous flowering time!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heed thou the lesson. Life has leaves to tread<br>And flowers to cherish; summer round thee glows;<br>Wait not till autumn's fading robes are shed,<br>But while its petals still are burning red<br>Gather life's full-blown rose!</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=472598" data-title="The Rose And The Fern de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="LADY, life's sweetest lesson wouldst thou learn, Come thou with me to Love's enchanted bower High overhead the trellised roses burn; Beneath thy feet behold the feathery fern,-- A leaf without a flower. What though the rose leaves fall? They stil..."></div> </div> </div>

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