<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384343" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Change</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Changed? Yes, I will confess it – I have changed.<br> I do not love you in the old fond way.<br>I am your friend still – time has not estranged<br> One kindly feeling of that vanished day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the bright glamour which made life a dream, <br> The rapture of that time, its sweet content, <br>Like visions of a sleeper’s brain they seem –<br> And yet I cannot tell you how they went.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why do you gaze with such accusing eyes<br> Upon me, dear? It is so very strange<br>That hearts, like all things underneath God’s skies, <br> Should sometimes feel the influence of change? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The birds, the flowers, the foliage of the trees, <br> The stars which seem so fixed, and so sublime, <br>Vast continents, and the eternal seas, -<br> All these do change, with ever-changing time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The face our mirror shows us year on year<br> Is not the same; our dearest aim, or need, <br>Our lightest thought, or feeling hope, or fear, <br> All, all the law of alternation heed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can we ask the human heart to stay, <br> Content with fancies of Youth’s earliest hours? <br>The year outgrows the violets of May, <br> Although, maybe, there are no fairer flowers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And life may hold no sweeter love than this, <br> Which lies so cold, so voiceless, and so dumb, <br>And will I miss it, dear? Why, yes, we miss<br> The violets always – till the roses come!</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=384343" data-title="Change de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Changed? Yes, I will confess it – I have changed. I do not love you in the old fond way. I am your friend still – time has not estranged One kindly feeling of that vanished day. But the bright glamour which made life a dream, The rapture ..."></div> </div> </div>

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