<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343189" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Philosophy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ere all the world had grown so drear,<br>When I was young and you were here,<br>'Mid summer roses in summer weather,<br>What pleasant times we've had together!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We were not Phyllis, simple-sweet,<br>And Corydon; we did not meet<br>By brook or meadow, but among<br>A Philistine and flippant throng</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which much we scorned; (less rigorous<br>It had no scorn at all for us!)<br>How many an eve of sweet July,<br>Heedless of Mrs. Grundy's eye,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We've scaled the stairway's topmost height,<br>And sat there talking half the night;<br>And, gazing on the crowd below,<br>Thanked Fate and Heaven that made us so;--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To hold the pure delights of brain<br>Above light loves and sweet champagne.<br>For, you and I, we did eschew<br>The egoistic &quot;I&quot; and &quot;you;&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all our observations ran<br>On Art and Letters, Life and Man.<br>Proudly we sat, we two, on high,<br>Throned in our Objectivity;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scarce friends, not lovers (each avers),<br>But sexless, safe Philosophers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>* * * * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear Friend, you must not deem me light<br>If, as I lie and muse to-night,<br>I give a smile and not a sigh<br>To thoughts of our Philosophy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Amy+Levy">Amy Levy</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=343189" data-title="Philosophy de Amy Levy" data-description="Ere all the world had grown so drear, When I was young and you were here, 'Mid summer roses in summer weather, What pleasant times we've had together! We were not Phyllis, simple-sweet, And Corydon; we did not meet By brook or meadow, but among A..."></div> </div> </div>

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