<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=338075" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The First Night</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now night comes, the first night in the grave.<br>O where is all the brightness that surrounded you?<br>Your bed is made in the cold earth.<br>How will you sleep tonight?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your pillow is damp from the last rain;<br>nightbirds scream, scared away by the wind;<br>no little lamps burn for you now; only the moonlight,<br>cold and pale, plays on the place where you sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hours creep by-- will you sleep till daylight?<br>Do you, like me, hear every toll of the bell?<br>How can I lie peacefully and sleep for a little while<br>when you, my love, are in such a bad bed?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You came, you went with a light trace,<br>a fleeting guest in this land of earth;<br>Where from? Whither? We only know:<br>from God's hand to God's hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isolde+Kurz">Isolde Kurz</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=338075" data-title="The First Night de Isolde Kurz" data-description="Now night comes, the first night in the grave./O where is all the brightness that surrounded you?/Your bed is made in the cold earth./How will you sleep tonight?/Your pillow is damp from the last rain;/nightbirds scream, scared away by the wind;/n..."></div> </div> </div>

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