<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368604" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Westward Ho!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We should not sit us down and sigh, <br>My girl, whose brow a fane appears, <br>Whose steadfast eyes look royally <br>Backwards and forwards o'er the years-- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The long, long years of conquered time, <br>The possible years unwon, that slope <br>Before us in the pale sublime <br>Of lives that have more faith than hope. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We dare not sit us down and dream <br>Fond dreams, as idle children do: <br>My forehead owns too many a seam, <br>And tears have worn their channels through </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your poor thin cheeks, which now I take <br>Twixt my two hands, caressing. Dear, <br>A little sunshine for my sake! <br>Although we're far on in the year. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though all our violets, sweet! are dead, <br>The primrose lost from fields we knew, <br>Who knows that harvests may be spread <br>For reapers brave like me and you? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who knows what bright October suns <br>May light up distant valleys mild, <br>Where as our pathway downward runs <br>We see Joy meet us, like a child </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who, sudden, by the roadside stands, <br>To kiss the travellers' weary brows, <br>And lead them through the twilight lands <br>Safely unto their Father's house. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, we'll not dream, nor look back, dear! <br>But march right on, content and bold, <br>To where our life sets, heavenly clear, <br>Westward, behind the hills of gold.</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=368604" data-title="Westward Ho! de Dinah Maria Mulock Craik" data-description="We should not sit us down and sigh, My girl, whose brow a fane appears, Whose steadfast eyes look royally Backwards and forwards o'er the years-- The long, long years of conquered time, The possible years unwon, that slope Before us in the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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