<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115642" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Domestic Peace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why should such gloomy silence reign,<br>And why is all the house so drear,<br>When neither danger, sickness, pain,<br>Nor death, nor want, have entered here?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are as many as we were<br>That other night, when all were gay<br>And full of hope, and free from care;<br>Yet is there something gone away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The moon without, as pure and calm,<br>Is shining as that night she shone;<br>But now, to us, she brings no balm,<br>For something from our hearts is gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something whose absence leaves a void--<br>A cheerless want in every heart;<br>Each feels the bliss of all destroyed,<br>And mourns the change--but each apart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fire is burning in the grate<br>As redly as it used to burn;<br>But still the hearth is desolate,<br>Till mirth, and love, and PEACE return.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas PEACE that flowed from heart to heart,<br>With looks and smiles that spoke of heaven,<br>And gave us language to impart<br>The blissful thoughts itself had given.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Domestic peace! best joy of earth,<br>When shall we all thy value learn?<br>White angel, to our sorrowing hearth,<br>Return--oh, graciously return!</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=115642" data-title="Domestic Peace de Anne Brontë" data-description="Why should such gloomy silence reign,/And why is all the house so drear,/When neither danger, sickness, pain,/Nor death, nor want, have entered here?/We are as many as we were/That other night, when all were gay/And full of hope, and free from car..."></div> </div> </div>

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