<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>As ye came from the Holy Land</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As ye came from the holy land<br>Of Walsinghame,<br>Met you not with my true love<br>By the way as you came?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How should I know your true love,<br>That have met many a one<br>As I came from the holy land,<br>That have come, that have gone?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She is neither white nor brown,<br>But as the heavens fair;<br>There is none hath her form divine<br>In the earth or the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such a one did I meet, good sir,<br>Such an angelic face,<br>Who like a nymph, like a queen, did appear<br>In her gait, in her grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She hath left me here alone<br>All alone, as unknown,<br>Who sometime did me lead with herself,<br>And me loved as her own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What's the cause that she leaves you alone<br>And a new way doth take,<br>That sometime did love you as her own,<br>And her joy did you make?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have loved her all my youth,<br>But now am old, as you see:<br>Love likes not the falling fruit,<br>Nor the withered tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Know that Love is a careless child,<br>And forgets promise past:<br>He is blind, he is deaf when he list,<br>And in faith never fast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His desire is a dureless content,<br>And a trustless joy;<br>He is won with a world of despair,<br>And is lost with a toy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of womenkind such indeed is the love,<br>Or the word love abused,<br>Under which many childish desires<br>And conceits are excused.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But true love is a durable fire,<br>In the mind ever burning,<br>Never sick, never dead, never cold,<br>From itself never turning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Olde+English">Anonymous Olde English</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=345952" data-title="As ye came from the Holy Land de Anonymous Olde English" data-description="As ye came from the holy land Of Walsinghame, Met you not with my true love By the way as you came? How should I know your true love, That have met many a one As I came from the holy land, That have come, that have gone? She is neither white nor..."></div> </div> </div>

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