<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374739" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Anne Allen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wind blew keenly from the Western sea,<br>And drove the dead leaves slanting from the tree--<br>Vanity of vanities, the Preacher saith--<br>Heaping them up before her Father's door<br>When I saw her whom I shall see no more--<br>We cannot bribe thee, Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She went abroad the falling leaves among,<br>She saw the merry season fade, and sung--<br>Vanity of vanities the Preacher saith--<br>Freely she wandered in the leafless wood,<br>And said that all was fresh, and fair, and good--<br>She knew thee not, O Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She bound her shining hair across her brow,<br>She went into the garden fading now;<br>Vanity of vanities the Preacher saith--<br>And if one sighed to think that it was sere,<br>She smiled to think that it would bloom next year!<br>She feared thee not, O Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blooming she came back to the cheerful room<br>With all the fairer flowers yet in bloom--<br>Vanity of vanities the Preacher saith--<br>A fragrant knot for each of us she tied,<br>And placed the fairest at her Father's side--<br>She cannot charm thee, Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her pleasant smile spread sunshine upon all;<br>We heard her sweet clear laughter in the Hall--<br>Vanity of vanities the Preacher saith--<br>We heard her sometimes after evening prayer,<br>As she went singing softly up the stair--<br>No voice can charm thee, Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where is the pleasant smile, the laughter kind,<br>That made sweet music of the winter wind?<br>Vanity of vanities the Preacher saith--<br>Idly they gaze upon her empty place,<br>Her kiss hath faded from her Father's face--<br>She is with thee, O Death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+Fitzgerald">Edward Fitzgerald</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=374739" data-title="On Anne Allen de Edward Fitzgerald" data-description="The wind blew keenly from the Western sea, And drove the dead leaves slanting from the tree-- Vanity of vanities, the Preacher saith-- Heaping them up before her Father's door When I saw her whom I shall see no more-- We cannot bribe thee, Death. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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