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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340460" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Need to Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The need to love that all the stars obey<br>Entered my heart and banished all beside.<br>Bare were the gardens where I used to stray;<br>Faded the flowers that one time satisfied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the beauty of the west on fire,<br>The moonlit hills from cloister-casements viewed<br>Cloud-like arose the image of desire,<br>And cast out peace and maddened solitude.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sought the City and the hopes it held:<br>With smoke and brooding vapors intercurled,<br>As the thick roofs and walls close-paralleled<br>Shut out the fair horizons of the world---</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A truant from the fields and rustic joy,<br>In my changed thought that image even so<br>Shut out the gods I worshipped as a boy<br>And all the pure delights I used to know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Often the veil has trembled at some tide<br>Of lovely reminiscence and revealed<br>How much of beauty Nature holds beside<br>Sweet lips that sacrifice and arms that yield:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Clouds, window-framed, beyond the huddled eaves<br>When summer cumulates their golden chains,<br>Or from the parks the smell of burning leaves,<br>Fragrant of childhood in the country lanes,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An organ-grinder's melancholy tune<br>In rainy streets, or from an attic sill<br>The blue skies of a windy afternoon<br>Where our kites climbed once from some grassy hill:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And my soul once more would be wrapped entire<br>In the pure peace and blessing of those years.<br>Before the fierce infection of Desire<br>Had ravaged all the flesh. Through starting tears</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shone that lost Paradise; but, if it did,<br>Again ere long the prison-shades would fall<br>That Youth condemns itself to walk amid,<br>So narrow, but so beautiful withal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I have followed Fame with less devotion,<br>And kept no real ambition but to see<br>Rise from the foam of Nature's sunlit ocean<br>My dream of palpable divinity;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And aught the world contends for to mine eye<br>Seemed not so real a meaning of success<br>As only once to clasp before I die<br>My vision of embodied happiness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alan+Seeger">Alan Seeger</a><div class=q>
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Entered my heart and banished all beside.
Bare were the gardens where I used to stray;
Faded the flowers that one time satisfied.

Before the beauty of the west on fire,
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