<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=533751" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mother Doorstep</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unto the Person kind there came<br>A young girl bearing her fruit of shame:<br>She fell and it had to pay the price -<br>Innocent Lamb of Sacrifice!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lovingly then the Person smiled,<br>Gazing upon the face of the child;<br>Smiled like an ogress - 'Don't despond! -<br>I am of children all too fond.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then said the mother, speaking low,<br>Kissing the babe she had born in woe:<br>'Treat him tenderly-nurse him well.'<br>Hotly the tears on the baby fell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Taking the mother's coin with a leer<br>Ogress remarked: 'Don't cry, my dear,<br>Motherly persons to me are known,<br>One is named Wood and another Stone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Either of them will your baby keep<br>Hushing him into a soft, long sleep,<br>Crooning a lonesome lullaby song;<br>They have been used to children long.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cold and yet kind was the nurse's breast;<br>Cold fell the rain on the babe at rest;<br>Pale was his face as an immortelle,<br>Old Mother Doorstep had nursed him well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+James+Daley">Victor James Daley</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=533751" data-title="Mother Doorstep de Victor James Daley" data-description="Unto the Person kind there came A young girl bearing her fruit of shame: She fell and it had to pay the price - Innocent Lamb of Sacrifice! Lovingly then the Person smiled, Gazing upon the face of the child; Smiled like an ogress - 'Don't despond..."></div> </div> </div>

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