<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115588" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Consolation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though bleak these woods and damp the ground<br>With fallen leaves so thickly strewn,<br>And cold the wind that wanders round<br>With wild and melancholy moan,<br>There is a friendly roof I know<br>Might shield me from the wintry blast;<br>There is a fire whose ruddy glow<br>Will cheer me for my wanderings past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so, though still where'er I roam<br>Cold stranger glances meet my eye,<br>Though when my spirit sinks in woe<br>Unheeded swells the unbidden sigh,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though solitude endured too long<br>Bids youthful joys too soon decay,<br>Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue<br>And overclouds my noon of day,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When kindly thoughts that would have way<br>Flow back discouraged to my breast<br>I know there is, though far away<br>A home where heart and soul may rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Warm hands are there that clasped in mine<br>The warmer heart will not belie,<br>While mirth and truth and friendship shine<br>In smiling lip and earnest eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ice that gathers round my heart<br>May there be thawed; and sweetly then<br>The joys of youth that now depart<br>Will come to cheer my soul again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though far I roam, this thought shall be<br>My hope, my comfort everywhere;<br>While such a home remains to me<br>My heart shall never know despair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Bront%C3%AB">Anne Brontë</a> from <i>Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell</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=115588" data-title="The Consolation de Anne Brontë" data-description="Though bleak these woods and damp the ground/With fallen leaves so thickly strewn,/And cold the wind that wanders round/With wild and melancholy moan,/There is a friendly roof I know/Might shield me from the wintry blast;/There is a fire whose rud..."></div> </div> </div>

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