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Encouragement - ZaunköniG - 25.06.2007
Encouragement
When first peeps out from earth the modest vine,
Asking but little space to live and grow,
How easily some step, without design,
May crush the being from a thing so low!
But let the hand that doth delight to show
Support to feebleness the tendril twine
Around some lattice-work, and ‘t will bestrow
It thanks in fragrance, and with blossoms shine.
And thus, when Genius first puts forth its shoot, -
So timid that it scarce dare ask to live, -
The tender germ, if trodden under foot,
Shrinks back again to its undying root;
While kindly training bids it upward strive,
And to the future flowers immortal give.