<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343201" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old House</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In through the porch and up the silent stair;<br>Little is changed, I know so well the ways;--<br>Here, the dead came to meet me; it was there<br>The dream was dreamed in unforgotten days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But who is this that hurries on before,<br>A flitting shade the brooding shades among?--<br>She turned,--I saw her face,--O God, it wore<br>The face I used to wear when I was young!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought my spirit and my heart were tamed<br>To deadness; dead the pangs that agonise.<br>The old grief springs to choke me,--I am shamed<br>Before that little ghost with eager eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O turn away, let her not see, not know!<br>How should she bear it, how should understand?<br>O hasten down the stairway, haste and go,<br>And leave her dreaming in the silent land.</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=343201" data-title="The Old House de Amy Levy" data-description="In through the porch and up the silent stair; Little is changed, I know so well the ways;-- Here, the dead came to meet me; it was there The dream was dreamed in unforgotten days. But who is this that hurries on before, A flitting shade the brood..."></div> </div> </div>

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