<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374132" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Appeal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALL summer-time you said: <br>'Love has no need of shelter nor of kindness, <br>For all the flowers take pity on his blindness, <br>And lead him to his scented rose-soft bed.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'He is a king,' you said. <br>'That I bow not the knee will never grieve him, <br>For all the summer-palaces receive him.' <br>But now Love has not where to lay his head. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'He is a god,' you said. <br>'His altars are wherever roses blossom.' <br>And summer made his altar of her bosom, <br>But now the altar is ungarlanded.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Take back the words you said: <br>Out in the rain he shivers broken-hearted; <br>Summer who bore him has with tears departed, <br>And o'er her grave he weeps uncomforted. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And you, for all you said, <br>Would weep too, if when dawn stills the wind's riot, <br>You found him on your threshold, pale and quiet, <br>Clasped him at last, and found the child was dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edith+Nesbit">Edith Nesbit</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=374132" data-title="The Appeal de Edith Nesbit" data-description="ALL summer-time you said: 'Love has no need of shelter nor of kindness, For all the flowers take pity on his blindness, And lead him to his scented rose-soft bed.' 'He is a king,' you said. 'That I bow not the knee will never grieve him, F..."></div> </div> </div>

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