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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509955" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Given And Taken</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The snow-flakes were softly falling<br>Adown on the landscape white,<br>When the violet eyes of my first born<br>Opened unto the light;<br>And I thought as I pressed him to me,<br>With loving, rapturous thrill,<br>He was pure and fair as the snow-flakes<br>That lay on the landscape still. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I smiled when they spoke of the weary<br>Length of the winter’s night,<br>Of the days so short and so dreary,<br>Of the sun’s cold cheerless light—<br>I listened, but in their murmurs<br>Nor by word nor thought took part,<br>For the smiles of my gentle darling<br>Brought light to my home and heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! quickly the joyous springtime<br>Came back to our ice-bound earth,<br>Filling meadows and woods with sunshine,<br>And hearts with gladsome mirth,<br>But, ah! on earth’s dawning beauty<br>There rested a gloomy shade,<br>For our tiny household blossom<br>Began to droop and fade. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I, shuddering, felt that the frailest<br>Of the flowers in the old woods dim<br>Had a surer hold on existence<br>Than I dared to hope for him.<br>In the flush of the summer’s beauty<br>On a sunny, golden day,<br>When flowers gemmed dell and upland,<br>My darling passed away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now I chafed at the brilliant sunshine<br>That flooded my lonely room,<br>Now I wearied of bounteous Nature,<br>So full of life and bloom;<br>I regretted the wintry hours<br>With the snow-flakes falling fast,<br>And the little form of my nursling<br>With his arms around me cast. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They laid his tiny garment<br>In an attic chamber high,<br>His coral, his empty cradle,<br>That they might not meet my eye;<br>And his name was never uttered,<br>What e’er each heart might feel,<br>For they wished the wound in my bosom<br>Might have tune to close and heal. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It has done so thanks to that Power<br>That has been my earthly stay,<br>And should you talk of my darling,<br>I could listen now all day,<br>For I know that each passing minute<br>Brings me nearer life’s last shore,<br>And nearer that glorious Kingdom<br>Where we both shall meet once more!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rosanna+Eleanor+Leprohon">Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon</a><div class=q>
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Adown on the landscape white,
When the violet eyes of my first born
Opened unto the light;
And I thought as I pressed him to me,
With loving, rapturous thrill,
He was pure and fair as the snow-flakes
That lay on..."></div>
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