<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345809" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Saddest Fate</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To touch a broken lute,<br>To strike a jangled string,<br>To strive with tones forever mute<br>The dear old tunes to sing--<br>What sadder fate could any heart befall?<br>Alas! dear child, never to sing at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To sigh for pleasures flown,<br>To weep for withered flowers,<br>To count the blessings we have known,<br>Lost with the vanished hours--<br>What sadder fate could any heart befall?<br>Alas! dear child, ne'er to have known them at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To dream of love and rest,<br>To know the dream has past,<br>To bear within an aching breast<br>Only a void at last--<br>What sadder fate could any heart befall?<br>Alas! dear child, ne'er to have loved at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To trust an unknown good,<br>To hope, but all in vain,<br>Over a far-off bliss to brood,<br>Only to find it pain--<br>What sadder fate could any soul befall?<br>Alas! dear child, never to hope at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Americas">Anonymous Americas</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=345809" data-title="The Saddest Fate de Anonymous Americas" data-description="To touch a broken lute, To strike a jangled string, To strive with tones forever mute The dear old tunes to sing-- What sadder fate could any heart befall? Alas! dear child, never to sing at all. To sigh for pleasures flown, To weep for withered ..."></div> </div> </div>

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