<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384264" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Leaf</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Somebody said, in the crowd, last eve, <br> That you were married, or soon to be.<br>I have not thought of you, I believe, <br> Since last we parted. Let me see: <br>Five long Summers have passed since then –<br> Each has been pleasant in its own way –<br>And you are but one of a dozen men<br> Who have played the suitor a Summer day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, nevertheless, when I heard your name, <br> Coupled with some one’s, not my own, <br>There burned in my bosom a sudden flame, <br> That carried me back to the day that is flown.<br>I was sitting again by the laughing brook, <br> With you at my feet, and the sky above, <br>And my heart was fluttering under your look –<br> The unmistakable look of Love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again your breath, like a South wind, fanned<br> My cheek, where the blushes came and went; <br>And the tender clasp of your strong, warm hand<br> Sudden thrills through my pulses sent.<br>Again you were mine by Love’s decree: <br>So for a moment it seemed last night, <br> When somebody mentioned your name to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just for the moment I thought you mine –<br> Loving me, wooing me, as of old.<br>The tale remembered seemed half divine –<br> Though I held it lightly enough when told.<br>The past seemed fairer than when it was near, <br> As ‘blessings brighten when taking flight, ’<br>And just for the moment I held you near –<br> When somebody mentioned your name last night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</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=384264" data-title="A Leaf de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Somebody said, in the crowd, last eve, That you were married, or soon to be. I have not thought of you, I believe, Since last we parted. Let me see: Five long Summers have passed since then – Each has been pleasant in its own way – And y..."></div> </div> </div>

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