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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357834" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Chase of Ages</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Light of my lives! Is the time not yet?<br>Lo, I've brooded on a star<br>Through many a year, with the hope held dear<br>That, in some future far,<br>I would know the joy of a love returned.<br>Are my lives lived vainly, all?<br>Since that cosmic morn when life, now-born,<br>First moved on this mundane ball?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, I mind it yet, when first we met<br>On a tertiary rock,<br>Flow the graceful charm of your rudiments<br>Imparted love's first shock.<br>But I was a mere organic cell<br>In that early eocene,<br>While you were a prim, primordial germ,<br>And the mother of protogene.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I loved and died, and the ages sped<br>Till the time of my second birth;<br>When I took my place in the cosmic race,<br>And again came down to earth.<br>Once more we met. Ah, love, not yet!<br>You were far above my state!<br>For how could I raise my mollusc gaze<br>To a virtuous vertebrate?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again we died, and again we slept,<br>And again we came to be <br>I as an anthropoidal ape,<br>And you as a chimpanzee.<br>You as a charming chimpanzee,<br>With a high, patrician air;<br>And I watched you waltz from tree to tree<br>As I slunk in my lowly lair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet again, in an age or so,<br>We met, and I mind the sob<br>I sobbed when I found that I was what?<br>And you were a thingumbob.<br>You had sold your tail for a kind of soul,<br>You had grown two thumbs beside;<br>And I knew again that my love was vain,<br>So I went to the woods and died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a humble homunculus, later on,<br>I crept to your cave at night,<br>And howled long, love-lorn howls in vain<br>To my lady troglodyte.<br>And I grew insane at your cold disdain,<br>And my howlings filled the place,<br>Till your father sought me out one night,<br>And - again I yearned in space.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, light of my lives! Is the time not yet?<br>say, in what distant life <br>In what dim age that is still to come<br>May I win and call you wife?<br>Still high above! My love, my love!<br>Nay, how can I raise my eyes<br>To you, my star of the eocene,<br>My e'er elusive prize?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo, Time speeds on, and the suns grow cold,<br>And the earth infirm and hoar,<br>And, ages past, we are here at last <br>Ay, both on the earth once more.<br>But, alas, dear heart, as far apart<br>As e'er in this cosmic whirl;<br>For I'm but a lowly writer-man<br>And you are a tea-room girl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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Lo, I've brooded on a star
Through many a year, with the hope held dear
That, in some future far,
I would know the joy of a love returned.
Are my lives lived vainly, all?
Since that cosmic morn when life, no..."></div>
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