<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576193" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fairy's Quest (Verses For The Children).</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the Fairy Queen sat on her gossamer throne<br>That sparkled with pearls of dew,<br>She suddenly cried to a sprite at her side-<br>'A mission 1 have for you!<br>Go, search every country and continent,<br>Till you find the jewel men call Content.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away at her bidding the fairy sped,<br>In quest of the gem so rare;<br>In north and in south, in east and in west,<br>He sought for it everywhere<br>From the frozen realm of the great Ice-King,<br>To the Eastern groves where the bulbuls sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long days, and weeks, and months went by,<br>And still his quest was vain.<br>He sought it in many a monarch's Court,<br>And in Beauty's glittering train ;<br>But neither in crown, nor in diadem,<br>Could he find a trace of the precious gem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While resting one day by a peasant's cot,<br>There fell on the fairy's ear<br>The sound of laughter rippling sweet,<br>And of melody, joyous and clear,<br>Which rose, like the thrush's wood-notes wild,<br>From the young mother's lips, as she fondled her child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">''Tis surely here where Content must be!'<br>He cried, with a sudden start.<br>Then his fairy eyes pierced the inmost depths<br>Of that peasant mother's heart:<br>And found at last was the treasure rare,<br>For, lo! the jewel he sought was there !</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Baron">William Baron</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=576193" data-title="The Fairy's Quest (Verses For The Children). de William Baron" data-description="As the Fairy Queen sat on her gossamer throne That sparkled with pearls of dew, She suddenly cried to a sprite at her side- 'A mission 1 have for you! Go, search every country and continent, Till you find the jewel men call Content.' Away at her ..."></div> </div> </div>

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