<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384518" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Only A Sad Mistake</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only a blunder-a sad mistake;<br>All my own fault and mine alone.<br>The saddest error a heart can make;<br>I was so young, or I would have known.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Only his rare, sweet, tender smile;<br>Only a lingering touch of his hand.<br>I think I was dreaming all the while,<br>The reason I did not understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yet, somewhere, I've read men woo this way;<br>That eyes speak, sometimes, before the tongue.<br>And I was sure he would speak some day;<br>Pardon the folly-I was so young.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Was I, say-for now I am old!<br>So old, it seems like a hundred years<br>Since I felt my heart growing hard and cold<br>With a pain too bitter and deep for tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I saw him lean over the stranger's chair,<br>With a warm, new light in his beautiful eyes;<br>And I woke from my dreaming, then and there,<br>And went out of my self-made Paradise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He never loved me-I know, I see!<br>Such sad, sad blunders as young hearts make.<br>She did not win him away from me,<br>For he was not mine. It was my mistake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A woman should wait for a man to speak<br>Before she dreams of his love, I own;<br>But I was a girl-girls' hearts are weak;<br>And the pain, like the fault, is mine alone.</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=384518" data-title="Only A Sad Mistake de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Only a blunder-a sad mistake; All my own fault and mine alone. The saddest error a heart can make; I was so young, or I would have known. Only his rare, sweet, tender smile; Only a lingering touch of his hand. I think I was dreaming all the whil..."></div> </div> </div>

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