<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477899" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Seedling</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AS a quiet little seedling<br>Lay within its darksome bed,<br>To itself it fell a-talking,<br>And this is what it said:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I am not so very robust,<br>But I'll do the best I can;'<br>And the seedling from that moment<br>Its work of life began.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So it pushed a little leaflet<br>Up into the light of day,<br>To examine the surroundings<br>And show the rest the way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The leaflet liked the prospect,<br>So it called its brother, Stem;<br>Then two other leaflets heard it,<br>And quickly followed them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be sure, the haste and hurry<br>Made the seedling sweat and pant;<br>But almost before it knew it<br>It found itself a plant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sunshine poured upon it,<br>And the clouds they gave a shower;<br>And the little plant kept growing<br>Till it found itself a flower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little folks, be like the seedling,<br>Always do the best you can;<br>Every child must share life's labor<br>Just as well as every man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the sun and showers will help you<br>Through the lonesome, struggling hours,<br>Till you raise to light and beauty<br>Virtue's fair, unfading flowers.</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=477899" data-title="The Seedling de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="AS a quiet little seedling Lay within its darksome bed, To itself it fell a-talking, And this is what it said: 'I am not so very robust, But I'll do the best I can;' And the seedling from that moment Its work of life began. So it pushed a little..."></div> </div> </div>

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