<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342045" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Past Days</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dead and gone, the days we had together,<br>Shadow-stricken all the lights that shone<br>Round them, flown as flies the blown foam's feather,<br> Dead and gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where we went, we twain, in time foregone,<br>Forth by land and sea, and cared not whether,<br>If I go again, I go alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bound am I with time as with a tether;<br>Thee perchance death leads enfranchised on,<br>Far from deathlike life and changeful weather,<br> Dead and gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Above the sea and sea-washed town we dwelt,<br>We twain together, two brief summers, free<br>From heed of hours as light as clouds that melt<br> Above the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Free from all heed of aught at all were we,<br>Save chance of change that clouds or sunbeams dealt<br>And gleam of heaven to windward or to lee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Norman downs with bright grey waves for belt<br>Were more for us than inland ways might be;<br>A clearer sense of nearer heaven was felt<br> Above the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cliffs and downs and headlands which the forward-hasting<br>Flight of dawn and eve empurples and embrowns,<br>Wings of wild sea-winds and stormy seasons wasting<br> Cliffs and downs,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These, or ever man was, were: the same sky frowns,<br>Laughs, and lightens, as before his soul, forecasting<br>Times to be, conceived such hopes as time discrowns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These we loved of old: but now for me the blasting<br>Breath of death makes dull the bright small seaward towns,<br>Clothes with human change these all but everlasting<br> Cliffs and downs.</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=342045" data-title="Past Days de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="I. Dead and gone, the days we had together, Shadow-stricken all the lights that shone Round them, flown as flies the blown foam's feather, Dead and gone. Where we went, we twain, in time foregone, Forth by land and sea, and cared not whether, I..."></div> </div> </div>

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