<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510027" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To My First Born</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair tiny rosebud! what a tide<br>Of hidden joy, o’erpow’ring, deep,<br>Of grateful love, of woman’s pride,<br>Thrills through my heart till I must weep<br>With bliss to look on thee, my son,<br>My first born child—my darling one! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What joy for me to sit and gaze<br>Upon thy gentle, baby face,<br>And, dreaming of far distant days,<br>With mother’s weakness strive to trace<br>Tokens of future greatness high,<br>On thy smooth brow and lustrous eye. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What do I wish thee, darling, say?<br>Is it that lordly mental power<br>That o’er thy kind will give thee sway,<br>Unchanging, full, a glorious dower<br>For those whose minds may grasp its worth,<br>True rulers and true kings of earth? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or would I ask for thee that fire<br>Of wond’rous genius, great divine,<br>The spell that charms the poet’s lyre,<br>Till like a halo it will shine<br>Around a name praised, honored, sung,<br>In distant climes by many a tongue? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, no! my child, with such vain themes<br>I will not mar thy quiet rest<br>Nor wish ambition’s restless dreams<br>Infused into thy tranquil breast;<br>Too soon will manhood’s weight of care<br>O’ercloud that waxen brow so fair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For thee, my Babe, I only pray<br>Thou’lt live to bless thy parents’ love,<br>To be their hope, their earthly stay,<br>And gaining grace from heaven above,<br>Tread in the path the good have trod,<br>True to thy country and thy God!</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> <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=510027" data-title="To My First Born de Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon" data-description="Fair tiny rosebud! what a tide Of hidden joy, o’erpow’ring, deep, Of grateful love, of woman’s pride, Thrills through my heart till I must weep With bliss to look on thee, my son, My first born child—my darling one! What joy for me to si..."></div> </div> </div>

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