<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365809" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Your 48th.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so to you my sweet, it comes<br>The point at which, three quarters gone<br>Life trickles through our fingers<br>Like the sand, <br>In some sad, damaged hour-glass, <br>That runs ahead of man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Months pass in days, and weeks in hours, <br>And how we age – like flowers that wilt in time; <br>Though beauty lies, not in unblemished skin, <br>But deep inside; <br>And character and grace shine at our eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We rarely speak of love, as once we did<br>With hot breath steaming at the window panes, <br>And where we, breathless, rode along<br>The rim of our content, <br>We now seek quiet comfort in green lanes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love you still, and more than you would know, <br>Love walks beside me on the golden sand, <br>It makes my heart beat faster<br>When you smile, <br>And leaps like lightning, when you touch my hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2 October 1998</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</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=365809" data-title="On Your 48th. de David Lewis Paget" data-description="And so to you my sweet, it comes The point at which, three quarters gone Life trickles through our fingers Like the sand, In some sad, damaged hour-glass, That runs ahead of man. Months pass in days, and weeks in hours, And how we age – like..."></div> </div> </div>

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