<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360270" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eve- Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I span and Eve span<br>A thread to bind the heart of man;<br>But the heart of man was a wandering thing<br>That came and went with little to bring:<br>Nothing he minded what we made,<br>As here he loitered, and there he stayed. <br>I span and Eve span<br>A thread to bind the heart of man;<br>But the more we span the more we found<br>It wasn't his heart but ours we bound.<br>For children gathered about our knees:<br>The thread was a chain that stole our ease.<br>And one of us learned in our children's eyes<br>That more than man was love and prize.<br>But deep in the heart of one of us lay<br>A root of loss and hidden dismay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said he was strong. He had no strength<br>But that which comes of breadth and length.<br>He said he was fond. But his fondness proved<br>The flame of an hour when he was moved.<br>He said he was true. His truth was but<br>A door that winds could open and shut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet, and yet, as he came back,<br>Wandering in from the outward track,<br>We held our arms, and gave him our breast,<br>As a pillowing place for his head to rest.<br>I span and Eve span,<br>A thread to bind the heart of man!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dame+Mary+Gilmore">Dame Mary Gilmore</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=360270" data-title="Eve- Song de Dame Mary Gilmore" data-description="I span and Eve span A thread to bind the heart of man; But the heart of man was a wandering thing That came and went with little to bring: Nothing he minded what we made, As here he loitered, and there he stayed. I span and Eve span A thread to b..."></div> </div> </div>

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