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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384650" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Maniac</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw them sitting in the shade;<br>The long green vines hung over,<br>But could not hide the gold-haired maid<br>And Earl, my dark-eyed lover.<br>His arm was clasped so close, so close,<br>Her eyes were softly lifted,<br>While his eyes drank the cheek of rose<br>And breasts like snowflakes drifted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A strange noise sounded in my brain;<br>I was a guest unbidden.<br>I stole away, but came again<br>With two knives snugly hidden.<br>I stood behind them. Close they kissed,<br>While eye to eye was speaking;<br>I aimed my steels, and neither missed<br>The heart I sent it seeking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were two death-shrieks mingled so<br>It seemed like one voice crying.<br>I laughed-it was such bliss, you know,<br>To hear and see them dying.<br>I laughed and shouted while I stood<br>Above the lovers, gazing<br>Upon the trickling rills of blood<br>And frightened eyes fast glazing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was such joy to see the rose<br>Fade from her cheek forever;<br>To know the lips he kissed so close<br>Could answer never, never.<br>To see his arm grow stark and cold,<br>And know it could not hold her;<br>To know that while the world grew old<br>His eyes could not behold her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A crowd of people thronged about,<br>Brought thither by my laughter;<br>I gave one last triumphant shout-<br>Then darkness followed after.<br>That was a thousand years ago;<br>Each hour I live it over,<br>For there, just out of reach, you know,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She<br>lies, with Earl, my lover.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They lie there, staring, staring so<br>With great, glazed eyes to taunt me.<br>Will no one bury them down low,<br>Where they shall cease to haunt me?<br>He kissed her lips, not mine; the flowers<br>And vines hung all about them<br>Sometimes I sit and laugh for hours<br>To think just how I found them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then I sometimes stand and shriek<br>In agony of terror:<br>I see the red warm in her cheek,<br>Then laugh loud at my error.<br>My cheek was all too pale he thought;<br>He deemed hers far the brightest.<br>Ha! but my dagger touched a spot<br>That made <br>her<br>face the whitest!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But oh, the days seem very long,<br>Without my Earl, my lover;<br>And something in my head seems wrong<br>The more I think it over.<br>Ah! look-she is not dead-look there!<br>She's standing close beside me!<br>Her eyes are open-how they stare!<br>Oh, hide me! hide me! hide me!</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>
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The long green vines hung over,
But could not hide the gold-haired maid
And Earl, my dark-eyed lover.
His arm was clasped so close, so close,
Her eyes were softly lifted,
While his eyes drank the cheek of rose
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