Thursday, May 23, 2013

A TRIBUTE TO CHARLES DICKENS


Her majesty the queen of Romania ("Carmen Sylva") has written the following verses in commemoration of the establishment of the "Tiny Tim" Cot in the Royal Portsmouth Hospital of London:

I love him so for all the good
   His soul was wont to see
In wretched, torn, misunderstood,
   Unknown humanity.
In the darkness he found light; in pain
   And error love divine.
He taught sad hearts to laugh again,
   And hidden gold to shine.

He heard the Christmas carols ring,
   He pitied moth and snake,
And had a song for ev'ry wing,
   And balm for ev'ry ache!
Carmen Sylva.

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