<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37014" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Lecture Upon the Shadow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stand still, and I will read to thee<br>A lecture, Love, in Love's philosophy.<br> These three hours that we have spent,<br> Walking here, two shadows went<br>Along with us, which we ourselves produc'd.<br>But, now the sun is just above our head,<br> We do those shadows tread,<br> And to brave clearness all things are reduc'd.<br>So whilst our infant loves did grow,<br>Disguises did, and shadows, flow<br>From us and our cares; but now 'tis not so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That love hath not attain'd the highest degree,<br>Which is still diligent lest others see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Except our loves at this noon stay,<br>We shall new shadows make the other way.<br> As the first were made to blind<br> Others, these which come behind<br>Will work upon ourselves, and blind our eyes.<br>If our loves faint, and westerwardly decline,<br> To me thou, falsely, thine<br> And I to thee mine actions shall disguise.<br>The morning shadows wear away,<br>But these grow longer all the day;<br>But O! love's day is short, if love decay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love is a growing, or full constant light,<br>And his short minute, after noon, is night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Donne">John Donne</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=37014" data-title="A Lecture Upon the Shadow de John Donne" data-description="Stand still, and I will read to thee/A lecture, Love, in Love's philosophy./ These three hours that we have spent,/ Walking here, two shadows went/Along with us, which we ourselves produc'd./But, now the sun is just above our head,/ We do those sh..."></div> </div> </div>

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