<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538737" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Chaplet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A little girl through field and wood<br>Went plucking flowerets here and there,<br>When suddenly beside her stood<br>A lady wondrous fair!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lovely lady smiled, and laid<br>A wreath upon the maiden's brow;<br>'Wear it, 'twill blossom soon,' she said,<br>'Although 'tis leafless now.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The little maiden older grew<br>And wandered forth of moonlight eves,<br>And sighed and loved as maids will do;<br>When, lo! her wreath bore leaves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then was our maid a wife, and hung<br>Upon a joyful bridegroom's bosom;<br>When from the garland's leaves there sprung<br>Fair store of blossom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And presently a baby fair<br>Upon her gentle breast she reared;<br>When midst the wreath that bound her hair<br>Rich golden fruit appeared.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when her love lay cold in death,<br>Sunk in the black and silent tomb,<br>All sere and withered was the wreath<br>That wont so bright to bloom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet still the withered wreath she wore;<br>She wore it at her dying hour;<br>When, to the wondrous garland bore<br>Both leaf, and fruit, and flower!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Makepeace+Thackeray">William Makepeace Thackeray</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=538737" data-title="The Chaplet de William Makepeace Thackeray" data-description="A little girl through field and wood Went plucking flowerets here and there, When suddenly beside her stood A lady wondrous fair! The lovely lady smiled, and laid A wreath upon the maiden's brow; 'Wear it, 'twill blossom soon,' she said, 'Althoug..."></div> </div> </div>

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