<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=504608" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The orphaned sapling</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sapling, she and I together grew, <br>pouring as much affection, <br>and nourishing with as much caress, <br>but on a forbidden soil, <br>under a cloudy sky, <br>with no one to know, <br>but, alas, only for a short-while, <br>after which we had to part, <br>abandoning the sapling to the fate, <br>we ourselves in unending pang.<br>Whose fault is it to grow<br>a perennial for a short while, <br>that would never yield anywhere? <br>Or is it like one who smokes with <br>pleasure, knowing it a harm to health? <br>Or have we to be content with<br> a passing cloud pouring rain? <br>No, let us keep it in a herbarium<br>as a memento for our emporium<br>when we part the company<br>rather than desert it in agony.<br>05.04099, Palakkad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rm.+Shanmugam+Chettiar">Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar</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=504608" data-title="The orphaned sapling de Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar" data-description="A sapling, she and I together grew, pouring as much affection, and nourishing with as much caress, but on a forbidden soil, under a cloudy sky, with no one to know, but, alas, only for a short-while, after which we had to part, abandoning ..."></div> </div> </div>

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