<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=349960" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Not To Be</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE rose said 'Let but this long rain be past,<br>And I shall feel my sweetness in the sun<br>And pour its fullness into life at last.'<br>But when the rain was done,<br>But when dawn sparkled through unclouded air,<br>She was not there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lark said 'Let but winter be away,<br>And blossoms come, and light, and I will soar,<br>And lose the earth, and be the voice of day.'<br>But when the snows were o'er,<br>But when spring broke in blueness overhead,<br>The lark was dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And myriad roses made the garden glow,<br>And skylarks carolled all the summer long—<br>What lack of birds to sing and flowers to blow?<br>Yet, ah, lost scent, lost song!<br>Poor empty rose, poor lark that never trilled!<br>Dead unfulfilled!</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=349960" data-title="Not To Be de Augusta Davies Webster" data-description="THE rose said 'Let but this long rain be past, And I shall feel my sweetness in the sun And pour its fullness into life at last.' But when the rain was done, But when dawn sparkled through unclouded air, She was not there. The lark said 'Let but ..."></div> </div> </div>

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