<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=338741" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Change</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">LOVE in her sunny eyes does basking play;<br>Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair;<br>Love does on both her lips for ever stray<br>And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there.<br>In all her outward parts Love's always seen;<br>But, oh, He never went within.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within Love's foes, his greatest foes abide,<br>Malice, Inconstance, and Pride. <br>So the Earth's face, trees, herbs, and flowers do dress,<br>With other beauties numberless; <br>But at the center, darkness is, and Hell;<br>There wicked spirits, and there the Damned dwell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With me alas, quite contrary it fares;<br>Darkness and death lies in my weeping eyes,<br>Despair and paleness in my face appears,<br>And grief, and fear, Love's greatest enemies;<br>But, like the Persian tyrant, Love within<br>Keeps his proud court, and ne're is seen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh take my heart, and by that means you'll prove<br>Within, too stor'd enough of Love; <br>Give me but yours, I'll by that change so thrive,<br>That Love in all my parts shall live. <br>So powerful is this change, it render can,<br>My outside woman, and your inside man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Abraham+Cowley">Abraham Cowley</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=338741" data-title="The Change de Abraham Cowley" data-description="LOVE in her sunny eyes does basking play; Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair; Love does on both her lips for ever stray And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there. In all her outward parts Love's always seen; But, oh, He never went within. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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