<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=356023" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From “Later Life”</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI<br>We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack: <br>Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly. <br>We see the things we do not yearn to see <br>Around us: and what see we glancing back? <br>Lost hopes that leave our hearts upon the rack, <br>Hopes that were never ours yet seem’d to be, <br>For which we steer’d on life’s salt stormy sea <br>Braving the sunstroke and the frozen pack. <br>If thus to look behind is all in vain, <br>And all in vain to look to left or right, <br>Why face we not our future once again, <br>Launching with hardier hearts across the main, <br>Straining dim eyes to catch the invisible sight, <br>And strong to bear ourselves in patient pain? <br> <br>IX<br>Star Sirius and the Pole Star dwell afar <br>Beyond the drawings each of other’s strength: <br>One blazes through the brief bright summer’s length <br>Lavishing life-heat from a flaming car; <br>While one unchangeable upon a throne <br>Broods o’er the frozen heart of earth alone, <br>Content to reign the bright particular star <br>Of some who wander or of some who groan. <br>They own no drawings each of other’s strength, <br>Nor vibrate in a visible sympathy, <br>Nor veer along their courses each toward <br>Yet are their orbits pitch’d in harmony <br>Of one dear heaven, across whose depth and length <br>Mayhap they talk together without speech.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christina+Georgina+Rossetti">Christina Georgina Rossetti</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=356023" data-title="From “Later Life” de Christina Georgina Rossetti" data-description="VI We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack: Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly. We see the things we do not yearn to see Around us: and what see we glancing back? Lost hopes that leave our hearts upon the rack, Hopes that were never ou..."></div> </div> </div>

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