<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341903" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Clasp Of Hands</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SOFT, small, and sweet as sunniest flowers<br> That bask in heavenly heat<br>When bud by bud breaks, breathes, and cowers,<br> Soft, small, and sweet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A babe's hands open as to greet<br> The tender touch of ours<br>And mock with motion faint and fleet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The minutes of the new strange hours<br> That earth, not heaven, must mete;<br>Buds fragrant still from heaven's own bowers,<br> Soft, small, and sweet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A velvet vice with springs of steel<br> That fasten in a trice<br>And clench the fingers fast that feel<br> A velvet viceÑ</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What man would risk the danger twice,<br> Nor quake from head to heel?<br>Whom would not one such test suffice?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well may we tremble as we kneel<br> In sight of Paradise,<br>If both a babe's closed fists conceal<br> A velvet vice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two flower-soft fists of conquering clutch,<br> Two creased and dimpled wrists,<br>That match, if mottled overmuch,<br> Two flower-soft fists---</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What heart of man dare hold the lists<br> Against such odds and such<br>Sweet vantage as no strength resists?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our strength is all a broken crutch,<br> Our eyes are dim with mists,<br>Our hearts are prisoners as we touch<br> Two flower-soft fists.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Algernon+Charles+Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</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=341903" data-title="A Clasp Of Hands de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="SOFT, small, and sweet as sunniest flowers That bask in heavenly heat When bud by bud breaks, breathes, and cowers, Soft, small, and sweet. A babe's hands open as to greet The tender touch of ours And mock with motion faint and fleet The minu..."></div> </div> </div>

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