<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374152" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Egoists</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">TWO strangers, from opposing poles,<br>Meet in the torrid zone of Love:<br>And their desire seems set above<br>The limitation of their souls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the trap; this is the snare,<br>This is the false, enchanting light,<br>And when it smoulders into night,<br>How can each know the other is there?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They own no bond of common speech;<br>Each, from far shores by wild winds brought,<br>Gropes for some cord of common thought<br>To draw the other within reach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each when the dark tide drowns their star,<br>Cries out, 'Thou art not one with me:<br>One flesh we seemed when eyes could see,<br>But now, how far thou art! How far!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each calling, 'Come! be mine! be wise!'<br>Stands obstinately in his place,<br>How can these two come face to face,<br>Till light spring from their meeting eyes?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could both but once cry, 'Far thou art,<br>But I am coming!' How the beat<br>Of waves that part them would retreat,<br>Resurge and find them, heart to heart!</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=374152" data-title="The Egoists de Edith Nesbit" data-description="TWO strangers, from opposing poles, Meet in the torrid zone of Love: And their desire seems set above The limitation of their souls. This is the trap; this is the snare, This is the false, enchanting light, And when it smoulders into night, How c..."></div> </div> </div>

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