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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116235" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Evelyn Hope</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead!<br>Sit and watch by her side an hour.<br>That is her book-shelf, this her bed;<br>She plucked that piece of geranium-flower,<br>Beginning to die too, in the glass;<br>Little has yet been changed, I think:<br>The shutters are shut, no light may pass<br>Save two long rays thro' the hinge's chink.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sixteen years old, when she died!<br>Perhaps she had scarcely heard my name;<br>It was not her time to love; beside,<br>Her life had many a hope and aim,<br>Duties enough and little cares,<br>And now was quiet, now astir,<br>Till God's hand beckoned unawares,—<br>And the sweet white brow is all of her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it too late then, Evelyn Hope?<br>What, your soul was pure and true,<br>The good stars met in your horoscope,<br>Made you of spirit, fire and dew—<br>And, just because I was thrice as old<br>And our paths in the world diverged so wide,<br>Each was nought to each, must I be told?<br>We were fellow mortals, nought beside?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, indeed! for God above<br>Is great to grant, as mighty to make,<br>And creates the love to reward the love:<br>I claim you still, for my own love's sake!<br>Delayed it may be for more lives yet,<br>Through worlds I shall traverse, not a few:<br>Much is to learn, much to forget<br>Ere the time be come for taking you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the time will come,—at last it will,<br>When, Evelyn Hope, what meant (I shall say)<br>In the lower earth, in the years long still,<br>That body and soul so pure and gay?<br>Why your hair was amber, I shall divine,<br>And your mouth of your own geranium's red—<br>And what you would do with me, in fine,<br>In the new life come in the old one's stead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have lived (I shall say) so much since then,<br>Given up myself so many times,<br>Gained me the gains of various men,<br>Ransacked the ages, spoiled the climes;<br>Yet one thing, one, in my soul's full scope,<br>Either I missed or itself missed me:<br>And I want and find you, Evelyn Hope!<br>What is the issue? let us see!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I loved you, Evelyn, all the while.<br>My heart seemed full as it could hold?<br>There was place and to spare for the frank young smile,<br>And the red young mouth, and the hair's young gold.<br>So, hush,—I will give you this leaf to keep:<br>See, I shut it inside the sweet cold hand!<br>There, that is our secret: go to sleep!<br>You will wake, and remember, and understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Browning">Robert Browning</a> from <i>Men and Women</i><div class=q>
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