<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508252" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Charity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Princess was of ancient line,<br> Of royal race was she;<br>Like cameo her face was fine,<br> With sad serentiy:<br>Yet bent she toiled with dimming eye,<br> Her rice and milk to buy.<br> <br>With lacework that for pity plead,<br> So out of date it seemed,<br>She sought to make her daily bread,<br> As of her past she dreamed:<br>And though sometimes I heard her sigh,<br> I never knew her cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her patient heart was full of hope,<br> For health she gave God thanks,<br>Till one day in an envelope<br> I sealed a thousand francs,<br>And 'neath her door for her to see<br> I slipped it secretly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas long after, I came to know<br> My gift she never spent,<br>But gave to one of greater woe,<br> And wearily she went . . .<br>To be of charity a part,--<br> That stabbed her to the heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For one dark day we found her dead:<br> Oh she was sweet to see!<br>Exalted in her garret bed<br> With face like ivory . . .<br>Aye, though from lack of food she died,<br> Unflawed she flagged her pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</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=508252" data-title="Charity de Robert William Service" data-description="The Princess was of ancient line, Of royal race was she; Like cameo her face was fine, With sad serentiy: Yet bent she toiled with dimming eye, Her rice and milk to buy. With lacework that for pity plead, So out of date it seemed, She sought..."></div> </div> </div>

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