<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342122" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An American to France</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O FRANCE, with what a shamed and sorry smile<br>We now recall that in a bygone day<br>We sought of you art, wit, perfection, style; <br>You were to us a playground and a play.<br>Paris was ours - its sudden green edged spaces <br>And sweeping vistas to the coming night, <br>Brocades and jewels, porcelains and laces<br>All these we took for leisure and delight.<br>And all the time we should have drunk our fill <br>Of wisdom known to you and you alone, <br>Clear-eyed self-knowledge, silent courage, will; <br>And now too late, we see these things are one: <br>That art is sacrifice and self-control,<br>And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alice+Duer+Miller">Alice Duer Miller</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=342122" data-title="An American to France de Alice Duer Miller" data-description="O FRANCE, with what a shamed and sorry smile We now recall that in a bygone day We sought of you art, wit, perfection, style; You were to us a playground and a play. Paris was ours - its sudden green edged spaces And sweeping vistas to the comin..."></div> </div> </div>

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