<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561658" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lily Palmer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She doesn't ask much of life poor Lily Palmer<br>Just a small cabin by the Gippsland sea<br>Where she might sleep and from the weather shelter<br>'Your dreams are small when you're in poverty'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her life's belongings in a shopping trolley<br>She push it up through Bourke Street Mall each day<br>A tattered figure amongst the wealthy shoppers<br>She show her years in wrinkles and in gray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some look at her with looks of human pity<br>Whilst some with looks of scorn ask who is she? <br>But she has learnt to cope with disapproval<br>Nor does she welcome looks of sympathy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Salvation Army give her food and clothing<br>Without their help by now she may be dead<br>And she sleep on hard bench at Spencer Street Station<br>I do not envy Lily her cold bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She's sixty six too old for the rough lifestyle<br>And far too old for sleeping in the damp and cold<br>Life's never easy for the poor and needy<br>And so much harder for the poor and old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It has been said she has a son and daughter<br>And that she has not laid eyes on them for years<br>She raised them on her own when times were better<br>But for her past she doesn't shed any tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Faces of wealth and affluence all around me<br>And amongst them the face of poverty I see<br>Through Bourke street Mall poor Lily slowly shuffles<br>Indifferent to both scorn and sympathy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still she has her dream and her dream seem quite modest<br>A small cabin in Gippsland somewhere by the sea<br>Where she might sleep and shelter from the weather<br>Your dreams are small when you're in poverty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=561658" data-title="Lily Palmer de Francis Duggan" data-description="She doesn't ask much of life poor Lily Palmer Just a small cabin by the Gippsland sea Where she might sleep and from the weather shelter 'Your dreams are small when you're in poverty'. Her life's belongings in a shopping trolley She push it up th..."></div> </div> </div>

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