<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477854" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Gourd</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the heavy earth the miner<br>Toiled and laboured day by day,<br>Wrenching from the miser mountain<br>Brilliant treasure where it lay.<br>And the artist worn and weary<br>Wrought with labour manifold<br>That the king might drink his nectar<br>From a goblet made of gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the prince's groaning table<br>Mid the silver gleaming bright<br>Mirroring the happy faces<br>Giving back the flaming light,<br>Shine the cups of priceless crystal<br>Chased with many a lovely line,<br>Glowing now with warmer colour,<br>Crimsoned by the ruby wine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a valley sweet with sunlight,<br>Fertile with the dew and rain,<br>Without miner's daily labour,<br>Without artist's nightly pain,<br>There there grows the cup I drink from,<br>Summer's sweetness in it stored,<br>And my lips pronounce a blessing<br>As they touch an old brown gourd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why, the miracle at Cana<br>In the land of Galilee,<br>Tho' it puzzles all the scholars,<br>Is no longer strange to me.<br>For the poorest and the humblest<br>Could a priceless wine afford,<br>If they 'd only dip up water<br>With a sunlight-seasoned gourd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So a health to my old comrade,<br>And a song of praise to sing<br>When he rests inviting kisses<br>In his place beside the spring.<br>Give the king his golden goblets,<br>Give the prince his crystal hoard;<br>But for me the sparkling water<br>From a brown and brimming gourd!</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=477854" data-title="The Gourd de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="In the heavy earth the miner Toiled and laboured day by day, Wrenching from the miser mountain Brilliant treasure where it lay. And the artist worn and weary Wrought with labour manifold That the king might drink his nectar From a goblet made of g..."></div> </div> </div>

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