<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115339" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Lamartine</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A poet led me once, in chains of flowers,<br> A pilgrimage beneath the Orient skies;<br> And there I dreamed I walked in Eden's bowers,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> He touched his harp, and when he sang of Love,<br> Then all my heart was to the poet given;<br> For his sweet tones seemed echoes from above;---<br> Strains that breathed less of Earth than Heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But when in majesty I saw him stand<br> The sacred shrine of Liberty to guard;<br> The destinies of France within his hand,---<br> Then in the hero I forgot the bard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Poet and hero, thus alternately,<br> Would claim my homage, each with equal art.<br> Allegiance I to neither could deny,<br> So each by turns shared my divided heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><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=115339" data-title="To Lamartine de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="A poet led me once, in chains of flowers,/ A pilgrimage beneath the Orient skies;/ And there I dreamed I walked in Eden's bowers,/ He touched his harp, and when he sang of Love,/ Then all my heart was to the poet given;/ For his sweet tones s..."></div> </div> </div>

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