<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480083" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Merchant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imagine, mother, that you are to stay at home and I am to travel<br>into strange lands.<br>Imagine that my boat is ready at the landing fully laden.<br>Now think well, mother, before you say what I shall bring for<br>you when I come back.<br>Mother, do you want heaps and heaps of gold?<br>There, by the banks of golden streams, fields are full of<br>golden harvest.<br>And in the shade of the forest path the golden champ flower<br>drop on the ground.<br>I will gather them all for you in many hundred baskets.<br>Mother, do you want pearls big as the raindrops of autumn?<br>I shall cross to the pearl island shore.<br>There in the early morning light pearls tremble on the meadow<br>flowers, pearls drop on the grass, and pearls are scattered on the<br>sand in spray by the wild sea-waves.<br>My brother shall have a pair of horses with wings to fly among<br>the clouds.<br>For father I shall bring a magic pen that, without his<br>knowing, will write of itself.<br>For you, mother, I must have the casket and jewel that cost<br>seven kings their kingdom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rabindranath+Tagore">Rabindranath Tagore</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=480083" data-title="The Merchant de Rabindranath Tagore" data-description="Imagine, mother, that you are to stay at home and I am to travel into strange lands. Imagine that my boat is ready at the landing fully laden. Now think well, mother, before you say what I shall bring for you when I come back. Mother, do you want ..."></div> </div> </div>

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