<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341807" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Haunted In Old Japan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I<br>Music of the star-shine shimmering o’er the sea<br>Mirror me no longer in the dusk of memory:<br>Dim and white the rose-leaves drift along the shore<br>Wind among the roses, blow no more!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II<br>All along the purple creek, lit with silver foam,<br>Silent, silent voices, cry no more of home;<br>Soft beyond the cherry-trees, o’er the dim lagoon,<br>Dawns the crimson lantern of the large low moon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III<br>We that loved in April, we that turned away<br>Laughing, ere the wood-dove crooned across the May,<br>Watch the withered rose-leaves drift along the shore.<br>Wind among the roses, blow no more!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV<br>We that saw the winter waste the weeping bower,<br>We that saw the young love perish like a flower,<br>We that saw the dark eyes deepening with tears,<br>Hear the vanished voices in the land beyond the years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V<br>We that hurt the thing we loved; we that went astray,<br>We that in the darkness idly dreamed of day . . .<br>. . . Ah! The dreary rose-leaves drift along the shore.<br>Wind among the roses, blow no more!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI<br>Lonely starry faces, wonderful and white,<br>Yearning with a cry across the dim sweet night,<br>All our dreams are blown a-drift as flowers before a fan,<br>All our hearts are haunted in the heart of old Japan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII<br>Haunted, haunted, haunted; we that mocked and sinned<br>Hear the vanished voices wailing down the wind,<br>Watch the ruined rose-leaves drift along the shore;<br>Wind among the roses, blow no more!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VIII<br>We, the sons of reason, we that chose to bride<br>Knowledge and rejected the Dream that we denied, <br>We that mocked the Holy Ghost and chose the Son of Man, [1]<br>Now must wander haunted in the heart of old Japan</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IX<br>Haunted, haunted, haunted, by the sound of falling tears,<br>Haunted, haunted, haunted, by the yearning of the years;<br>Ah! the phantom rose-leaves drift along the shore;<br>Wind among the roses, blow no more!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">X<br>All along the purple creek, lit with silver foam,<br>Sobbing, sobbing voices, cry no more of home:<br>Soft beyond the cherry trees, o’er the dim lagoon,<br>Dawns the crimson lantern of the large, low moon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Noyes">Alfred Noyes</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=341807" data-title="Haunted In Old Japan de Alfred Noyes" data-description="I Music of the star-shine shimmering o’er the sea Mirror me no longer in the dusk of memory: Dim and white the rose-leaves drift along the shore Wind among the roses, blow no more! II All along the purple creek, lit with silver foam, Silent, si..."></div> </div> </div>

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