<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383793" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought once how Theocritus had sung<br>Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,<br>Who each one in a gracious hand appears<br>To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:<br>And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,<br>I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,<br>The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,<br>Those of my own life, who by turns had flung<br>A shadow across me. Straightway I was 'ware,<br>So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move<br>Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair:<br>And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,--<br>'Guess now who holds thee ? '--' Death,' I said. But, there,<br>The silver answer rang,--' Not Death, but Love.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Barrett+Browning">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</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=383793" data-title="I de Elizabeth Barrett Browning" data-description="I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young: And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through ..."></div> </div> </div>

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