<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384303" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Answered</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good-bye – Yes, I am going, <br> Sudden? Well, you are right.<br>But a startling truth came home to me<br> With sudden force last night.<br>What is it? shall I tell you? –<br> Nay, that is why I go.<br>I am running away from the battlefield, <br> Turning my back on the foe.<br>Riddles? You think me cruel! <br> Have you not been most kind? <br>Why, when you question me like that, <br> What answer can I find? <br>You fear you failed to amuse me, <br> Your husband’s friend and guest, <br>Whom he bade you entertain and please –<br> Well, you have done your best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, why, you ask, am I going? <br> A friend of mine abroad, <br>Whose theories I have been acting upon, <br> Has proven himself a fraud.<br>You have heard me quote from Plato<br> A thousand times no doubt; <br>Well, I have discovered he did not know<br> What he was talking about.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You think I am speaking strangely? <br> You cannot understand? <br>Well, let me look down into your eyes, <br> And let me take your hand.<br>I am running away from danger –<br> I am flying before I fall; <br>I am going because with heart and soul<br> I love you – that is all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There, now, you are white with anger.<br> I knew it would be so.<br>You should not question a man too close<br> When he tells you he must go.</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=384303" data-title="Answered de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Good-bye – Yes, I am going, Sudden? Well, you are right. But a startling truth came home to me With sudden force last night. What is it? shall I tell you? – Nay, that is why I go. I am running away from the battlefield, Turning my back o..."></div> </div> </div>

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