<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355267" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Charles Lloyd</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A stranger, and alone, I past those scenes<br>We past so late together; and my heart<br>Felt something like desertion, when I look'd<br>Around me, and the well-known voice of friend<br>Was absent, and the cordial look was there<br>No more to smile on me. I thought on Lloyd;<br>All he had been to me. And now I go<br>Again to mingle with a world impure,<br>With men who make a mock of holy things,<br>Mistaken, and of man's best hope think scorn.<br>The world does much to warp the heart of man,<br>And I may sometimes join its ideot laugh.<br>Of this I now complain not. Deal with me,<br>Omniscient Father! as thou judgest best,<br>And in thy season tender thou my heart.<br>I pray not for myself; I pray for him,<br>Whose soul is sore perplex'd: shine thou on him,<br>Father of Lights! and in the difficult paths<br>Make plain his way before him. His own thoughts<br>May he not think, his own ends not pursue;<br>So shall he best perform thy will on earth.<br>Greatest and Best, thy will be ever ours! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">August 1797</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</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=355267" data-title="To Charles Lloyd de Charles Lamb" data-description="A stranger, and alone, I past those scenes We past so late together; and my heart Felt something like desertion, when I look'd Around me, and the well-known voice of friend Was absent, and the cordial look was there No more to smile on me. I thoug..."></div> </div> </div>

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