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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509985" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Child’s Dream</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Buried in childhood’s cloudless dreams, a fair-haired nursling lay,<br>A soft smile hovered round the lips as if still oped to pray;<br>And then a vision came to him, of beauty, strange and mild,<br>Such as may only fill the dreams of a pure sinless child. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stood by his couch an angel fair, with radiant, glitt’ring wings<br>Of hues as bright as the living gems the fount to Heaven flings;<br>With loving smile he bent above the fair child cradled there,<br>While sounds of sweet seraphic power stole o’er the fragrant air. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Child, list to me,” he softly said, “on mission high I’m here:<br>Sent by that Glorious One to whom Heav’n bows in loving fear;<br>I seek thee now, whilst thou art still on the threshold of earth’s strife,<br>To speak of what thou knowest not yet, this new and wond’rous life. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Dost cling to it? dost find this earth a fair and lovely one?<br>Dost love its bright-dyed birds and flowers, its radiant golden sun?<br>I come to bid thee leave it all—to turn from its bright bloom,<br>And, having closed thine eyes in death, descend into the tomb. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Thou shudderest, child! with restless gaze from me thou turn’st away;<br>’Mid summer flowers and singing birds wouldst thou remain to play;<br>Thou still wouldst bask in the dear light of thy fond father’s smile,<br>And on thy mother’s doating heart would linger yet awhile. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“’Tis well, sweet child, I blame thee not, but in spheres far away<br>Are blossoms lovelier far than those which tempt thee here to stay;<br>And if the love of parents fond with joy thy heart doth fill,<br>In those bright distant realms is One who loves thee better still! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“That One for thee in suffering lived—for thy sake, too, he died;<br>Oh! like the ocean is His love, as deep, my child, as wide.<br>Leave, then, this earth ere hideous sin thy spotless brow shall dim—<br>One struggling breath, one parting pang, and then thou’lt be with Him!” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A smile lit up the sleeper’s face, but soon it softly fled,<br>The rose leaf cheeks and lips grew wan—could it be the child was dead?<br>Yes, dead—and spared the ills of life, and in bright bliss above<br>The pure soul nestles in the light of God’s unbounded Love.</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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