<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368502" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At Even-Tide</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">C. N.--Died April, 1857.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What spirit is it that doth pervade <br>The silence of this empty room? <br>And as I lift my eyes, what shade <br>Glides off and vanishes in gloom? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could believe this moment gone, <br>A known form filled that vacant chair, <br>That those kind eyes upon me shone <br>I never shall see anywhere! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The living are so far away: <br>But thou--thou seemest strangely near; <br>Knowest all my silent heart would say, <br>Its peace, its pain, its hope, its fear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And from thy calm supernal height, <br>And wondrous wisdom newly won, <br>Smilest on all our poor delight, <br>And petty woe beneath the sun. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From all this coil thou hast slipped away, <br>As softly as a cloud departs <br>Along the hillside purple gray-- <br>Into the heaven of patient hearts. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing here suffered, nothing missed, <br>Will ever stir from its repose <br>The death-smile on her lips unkissed, <br>Who all things loves and all things knows. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I, who, ignorant and weak, <br>Of love so helpless--quick to pain, <br>With restless longing ever seek <br>The unattainable in vain, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Find it strange comfort thus to sit <br>While the loud world unheeded rolls, <br>And clasp, ere yet the fancy flit, <br>A friend's hand from the land of souls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dinah+Maria+Mulock+Craik">Dinah Maria Mulock Craik</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=368502" data-title="At Even-Tide de Dinah Maria Mulock Craik" data-description="C. N.--Died April, 1857. What spirit is it that doth pervade The silence of this empty room? And as I lift my eyes, what shade Glides off and vanishes in gloom? I could believe this moment gone, A known form filled that vacant chair, That ..."></div> </div> </div>

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