<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373902" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Reuben Pantier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted,<br>Your love was not all in vain.<br>I owe whatever I was in life<br>To your hope that would not give me up,<br>To your love that saw me still as good.<br>Dear Emily Sparks, let me tell you the story.<br>I pass the effect of my father and mother;<br>The milliner's daughter made me trouble<br>And out I went in the world,<br>Where I passed through every peril known<br>Of wine and women and joy of life.<br>One night, in a room in the Rue de Rivoli,<br>I was drinking wine with a black-eyed cocotte,<br>And the tears swam into my eyes.<br>She though they were amorous tears and smiled<br>For thought of her conquest over me.<br>But my soul was three thousand miles away,<br>In the days when you taught me in Spoon River.<br>And just because you no more could love me,<br>Nor pray for me, nor write me letters,<br>The eternal silence of you spoke instead.<br>And the black-eyed cocotte took the tears for hers,<br>As well as the deceiving kisses I gave her.<br>Somehow, from that hour, I had a new vision --<br>Dear Emily Sparks!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</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=373902" data-title="Reuben Pantier de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted, Your love was not all in vain. I owe whatever I was in life To your hope that would not give me up, To your love that saw me still as good. Dear Emily Sparks, let me tell you the story. I pass the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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