<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384596" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Beautiful Blue Danube</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They drift down the hall together; <br> He smiles in her lifted eyes.<br>Like waves of that mighty river<br> The strains of the ‘Danube’ rise.<br>They float on its rhythmic measure, <br> Like leaves on a summer stream; <br>And here, in this scene of pleasure, <br> I bury my sweet dead dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the cloud of her dusky tresses, <br> Like a star, shines out her face; <br>And the form of his strong arm presses<br> Is sylph-like in its grace.<br>As a leaf on the bounding river<br> Is lost in the seething sea, <br>I know that for ever and ever<br> My dream is lost to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And still the viols are playing<br> That grand old wordless rhyme; <br>And still those two are swaying<br> In perfect tune and time.<br>If the great bassoons that mutter, <br> If the clarinets that blow, <br>Were given the chance to utter<br> The secret things they know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would the lists of the slain who slumber<br> On the Danube’s battle-plains<br>The unknown hosts outnumber<br> Who die ‘neath the ‘Danube’s’ strains? <br>Those fall where the cannons rattle, <br> ‘Mid the rain of shot and shell; <br>But these, in a fiercer battle, <br> Find death in the music’s swell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With the river’s roar of passion<br> Is blended the dying groan; <br>But here, in the halls of fashion, <br> Hearts break, and make no moan.<br>And the music, swelling and sweeping, <br> Like the river, knows it all; <br>But none are counting or keeping<br> The lists of those who fall.</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=384596" data-title="The Beautiful Blue Danube de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="They drift down the hall together; He smiles in her lifted eyes. Like waves of that mighty river The strains of the ‘Danube’ rise. They float on its rhythmic measure, Like leaves on a summer stream; And here, in this scene of pleasure, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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