<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=349947" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In After Years</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">LOVE is dying. Why then, let it die.<br>Trample it down, that it die more fast.<br>What is a rose that has lost its bloom?<br>What is a fruit with its freshness past?<br>And where is the worth of the twilight gloom?<br>Let the night come when the day has gone by:<br>Let the dying die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leave your useless smiles and your tears,<br>Weepings and wooings are, oh, so vain!<br>Sunlights and rains bid the blossoms blow,<br>But waken no waning blossom again.<br>Nay, but say 'It was always so;<br>Love was not love in the other years,<br>There is nought for tears.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Say 'We lose what was never ours,<br>Lo, we were fooled by a fond deceit;<br>Because we chanced to be side by side,<br>Because we were young and love is sweet,<br>Love seemed there: but could love have died?<br>When has decay touched immortal hours?<br>Love was never ours.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, my heart, is it true? is it true?<br>Did all longings and fears mean no more?<br>Whispers and vows and the gladness mean this?<br>What, we grow wiser when years are o'er,<br>And weary in soul of a mimic bliss!<br>Did we but dream, hand in hand, we two?<br>Must it needs be true?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Augusta+Davies+Webster">Augusta Davies Webster</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=349947" data-title="In After Years de Augusta Davies Webster" data-description="LOVE is dying. Why then, let it die. Trample it down, that it die more fast. What is a rose that has lost its bloom? What is a fruit with its freshness past? And where is the worth of the twilight gloom? Let the night come when the day has gone by..."></div> </div> </div>

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