<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510658" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Charm</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take of English earth as much<br>As either hand may rightly clutch.<br>In the taking of it breathe<br>Prayer for all who lie beneath.<br>Not the great nor well-bespoke,<br>But the mere uncounted folk<br>Of whose life and death is none<br>Report or lamentation.<br>Lay that earth upon thy heart,<br>And thy sickness shall depart!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It shall sweeten and make whole<br>Fevered breath and festered soul.<br>It shall mightily restrain<br>Over-busied hand and brain.<br>It shall ease thy mortal strife<br>'Gainst the immortal woe of life,<br>Till thyself, restored, shall prove<br>By what grace the Heavens do move.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take of English flowers these --<br>Spring's full-vaced primroses,<br>Summer's wild wide-hearted rose,<br>Autumn's wall-flowerr of the close,<br>And, thy darkness to illume,<br>Winter's bee-thronged ivy-bloom.<br>Seek and serve them where they bide<br>From Candlemas to Christmas-tide,<br>For these simples, used aright,<br>Can restore a failing sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These shall cleanse and purify<br>Webbed and inward-turning eye;<br>These shall show thee treasure hid,<br>Thy familiar fields amid;<br>And reveal (which is thy need)<br>Every man a King indeed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=510658" data-title="A Charm de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for all who lie beneath. Not the great nor well-bespoke, But the mere uncounted folk Of whose life and death is none Report or lamentation. Lay tha..."></div> </div> </div>

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