<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477659" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Disappointed.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AN old man planted and dug and tended,<br>Toiling in joy from dew to dew;<br>The sun was kind, and the rain befriended;<br>Fine grew his orchard and fair to view.<br>Then he said: 'I will quiet my thrifty fears,<br>For here is fruit for my failing years.'<br>But even then the storm-clouds gathered,<br>Swallowing up the azure sky;<br>The sweeping winds into white foam lathered<br>The placid breast of the bay, hard by;<br>Then the spirits that raged in the darkened air<br>Swept o'er his orchard and left it bare.<br>The old man stood in the rain, uncaring,<br>Viewing the place the storm had swept;<br>And then with a cry from his soul despairing,<br>He bowed him down to the earth and wept.<br>But a voice cried aloud from the driving rain;<br>'Arise, old man, and plant again!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477659" data-title="Disappointed. de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="AN old man planted and dug and tended, Toiling in joy from dew to dew; The sun was kind, and the rain befriended; Fine grew his orchard and fair to view. Then he said: 'I will quiet my thrifty fears, For here is fruit for my failing years.' But ev..."></div> </div> </div>

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