<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117944" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ebb of Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A love that wanes is as an ebbing tide,<br>Which slowly, inch by inch, and scarce perceived,<br>With many a wave that makes brave show to rise,<br>Fails from the shore. No sudden treason turns<br>The long-accustomed loyalty to hate,<br>But years bring weariness for sweet content,<br>And fondness, daily sustenance of love,<br>Which use should make a tribute easier paid,<br>First grudged, and then withholden, starves the heart;<br>And though compassion, or remorseful thoughts<br>Of happy days departed, bring again<br>The ancient tenderness in seeming flood,<br>Not less it ebbs and ebbs till all is bare.<br>O happy shore, the flowing tide shall brim<br>Thy empty pools, and spread dull tangled weeds<br>In streamers many-colored as the lights<br>Which flash in northern heavens, and revive<br>The fainting blossoms of the rocks; but thou,<br>O heart, whence love hath ebbed, art ever bare!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+John+Church">Alfred John Church</a> from <i>Littell's Living Age, Volume 173, Issue 2244</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=117944" data-title="The Ebb of Love de Alfred John Church" data-description="A love that wanes is as an ebbing tide,/Which slowly, inch by inch, and scarce perceived,/With many a wave that makes brave show to rise,/Fails from the shore. No sudden treason turns/The long-accustomed loyalty to hate,/But years bring weariness ..."></div> </div> </div>

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