<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115899" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Kindliness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When love has changed to kindliness -<br>Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press<br>So tight that Time's an old god's dream<br>Nodding in heaven, and whisper stuff<br>Seven million years were not enough<br>To think on after, make it seem<br>Less than the breath of children playing,<br>A blasphemy scarce worth the saying,<br>A sorry jest, "When love has grown<br>To kindliness - to kindliness!" . . .<br>And yet - the best that either's known<br>Will change, and wither, and be less,<br>At last, than comfort, or its own<br>Remembrance. And when some caress<br>Tendered in habit (once a flame<br>All heaven sang out to) wakes the shame<br>Unworded, in the steady eyes<br>We'll have, - that day, what shall we do?<br>Being so noble, kill the two<br>Who've reached their second-best? Being wise,<br>Break cleanly off, and get away.<br>Follow down other windier skies<br>New lures, alone? Or shall we stay,<br>Since this is all we've known, content<br>In the lean twilight of such day,<br>And not remember, not lament?<br>That time when all is over, and<br>Hand never flinches, brushing hand;<br>And blood lies quiet, for all you're near;<br>And it's but spoken words we hear,<br>Where trumpets sang; when the mere skies<br>Are stranger and nobler than your eyes;<br>And flesh is flesh, was flame before;<br>And infinite hungers leap no more<br>In the chance swaying of your dress;<br>And love has changed to kindliness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rupert+Brooke">Rupert Brooke</a><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=115899" data-title="Kindliness de Rupert Brooke" data-description="When love has changed to kindliness -/Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press/So tight that Time's an old god's dream/Nodding in heaven, and whisper stuff/Seven million years were not enough/To think on after, make it seem/Less than the breath of ch..."></div> </div> </div>

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