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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=356069" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In The Willow Shade</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sat beneath a willow tree,<br>Where water falls and calls;<br>While fancies upon fancies solaced me,<br>Some true, and some were false.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who set their heart upon a hope<br>That never comes to pass,<br>Droop in the end like fading heliotrope<br>The sun's wan looking-glass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who set their will upon a whim<br>Clung to through good and ill,<br>Are wrecked alike whether they sink or swim,<br>Or hit or miss their will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All things are vain that wax and wane,<br>For which we waste our breath;<br>Love only doth not wane and is not vain,<br>Love only outlives death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A singing lark rose toward the sky,<br>Circling he sang amain;<br>He sang, a speck scarce visible sky-high,<br>And then he sank again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A second like a sunlit spark<br>Flashed singing up his track;<br>But never overtook that foremost lark,<br>And songless fluttered back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A hovering melody of birds<br>Haunted the air above;<br>They clearly sang contentment without words,<br>And youth and joy and love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O silvery weeping willow tree<br>With all leaves shivering,<br>Have you no purpose but to shadow me<br>Beside this rippled spring?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On this first fleeting day of Spring,<br>For Winter is gone by,<br>And every bird on every quivering wing<br>Floats in a sunny sky;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On this first Summer-like soft day,<br>While sunshine steeps the air,<br>And every cloud has gat itself away,<br>And birds sing everywhere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have you no purpose in the world<br>But thus to shadow me<br>With all your tender drooping twigs unfurled,<br>O weeping willow tree?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With all your tremulous leaves outspread<br>Betwixt me and the sun,<br>While here I loiter on a mossy bed<br>With half my work undone;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My work undone, that should be done<br>At once with all my might;<br>For after the long day and lingering sun<br>Comes the unworking night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This day is lapsing on its way,<br>Is lapsing out of sight;<br>And after all the chances of the day<br>Comes the resourceless night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The weeping willow shook its head<br>And stretched its shadow long;<br>The west grew crimson, the sun smoldered red,<br>The birds forbore a song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slow wind sighed through the willow leaves,<br>The ripple made a moan,<br>The world drooped murmuring like a thing that grieves;<br>And then I felt alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I rose to go, and felt the chill,<br>And shivered as I went;<br>Yet shivering wondered, and I wonder still,<br>What more that willow meant;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That silvery weeping willow tree<br>With all leaves shivering,<br>Which spent one long day overshadowing me<br>Beside a spring in Spring.</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>
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Where water falls and calls;
While fancies upon fancies solaced me,
Some true, and some were false.

Who set their heart upon a hope
That never comes to pass,
Droop in the end like fading heliotrope
The sun's wan looki..."></div>
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