<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116431" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Love and Folly</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love's worshippers alone can know<br>The thousand mysteries that are his;<br>His blazing torch, his twanging bow,<br>His blooming age are mysteries.<br>A charming science--but the day<br>Were all too short to con it o'er;<br>So take of me this little lay,<br>A sample of its boundless lore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As once, beneath the fragrant shade<br>Of myrtles breathing heaven's own air,<br>The children, Love and Folly, played--<br>A quarrel rose betwixt the pair.<br>Love said the gods should do him right--<br>But Folly vowed to do it then,<br>And struck him, o'er the orbs of sight,<br>So hard, he never saw again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His lovely mother's grief was deep,<br>She called for vengeance on the deed;<br>A beauty does not vainly weep,<br>Nor coldly does a mother plead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A shade came o'er the eternal bliss<br>That fills the dwellers of the skies;<br>Even stony-hearted Nemesis,<br>And Rhadamanthus, wiped their eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Behold," she said, "this lovely boy,"<br>While streamed afresh her graceful tears,<br>"Immortal, yet shut out from joy<br>And sunshine, all his future years.<br>The child can never take, you see,<br>A single step without a staff--<br>The harshest punishment would be<br>Too lenient for the crime by half."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All said that Love had suffered wrong,<br>And well that wrong should be repaid;<br>Then weighed the public interest long,<br>And long the party's interest weighed.<br>And thus decreed the court above--<br>"Since Love is blind from Folly's blow,<br>Let Folly be the guide of Love,<br>Where'er the boy may choose to go."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cullen+Bryant">William Cullen Bryant</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=116431" data-title="Love and Folly de William Cullen Bryant" data-description="Love's worshippers alone can know/The thousand mysteries that are his;/His blazing torch, his twanging bow,/His blooming age are mysteries./A charming science--but the day/Were all too short to con it o'er;/So take of me this little lay,/A sample ..."></div> </div> </div>

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