{"product_id":"2940149043101","title":"Mother's Dream and Other Poems","description":"Half our sorrows, half our troubles,\u003cbr\u003eMaking head and heart to ache,\u003cbr\u003eAre the fruit of blowing bubbles,\u003cbr\u003eBright to view, but quick to break.\u003cbr\u003eAll have played the child imbecile,\u003cbr\u003eBreathing hard to swell the sides\u003cbr\u003eOf a shining, fluid vessel,\u003cbr\u003eFrailer than the air it rides.\u003cbr\u003eFrom the infant’s cradle rising,\u003cbr\u003eAll the bubble mania show,\u003cbr\u003eOft our richest wealth comprising\u003cbr\u003eIn the bubbles that we blow.\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant, buoyant, upward going,\u003cbr\u003ePleased, we mark them in their flight,\u003cbr\u003eEvery hue of iris showing,\u003cbr\u003eAs they glance along the light.[2]\u003cbr\u003eLittle castles, high and airy,\u003cbr\u003eWith their crystal walls so thin,\u003cbr\u003eEach presents the wicked fairy,\u003cbr\u003eVanity, enthroned within!\u003cbr\u003eBut when two have struck together,\u003cbr\u003eWhat of either do we find?\u003cbr\u003eNot so much as one gay feather\u003cbr\u003eFlying Hope has left behind!\u003cbr\u003eStill the world are busy, blowing,\u003cbr\u003eEvery one, some empty ball;\u003cbr\u003eSo the seeds of mischief sowing,\u003cbr\u003eWhere, to burst, the bubbles fall.\u003cbr\u003eNor for self alone to gather,\u003cbr\u003eIs our evil harvest found;\u003cbr\u003eOft, with pipe and cup, we rather\u003cbr\u003eStep upon our neighbor’s ground.\u003cbr\u003eThus, amusing one another,\u003cbr\u003eWhile the glistening playthings rise,\u003cbr\u003eWe may doom a friend or brother\u003cbr\u003eTo a life of care and sighs.\u003cbr\u003eDo you doubt my simple story?\u003cbr\u003eI can point a thousand ways\u003cbr\u003eWhere this bubble-making glory\u003cbr\u003eHas in darkness hid its rays![3]\u003cbr\u003eYet we ’ll spare a slight confusion\u003cbr\u003eCaused the world by giving names;\u003cbr\u003eSince a right to some delusion\u003cbr\u003eEvery one from nature claims!","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167808045296,"sku":"2940149043101","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149043101_p0.jpg?v=1763718190","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149043101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}