<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386553" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Close by</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So near at hand (our eyes o'erlooked its nearness <br>In search of distant things) <br>A dear dream lay--perchance to grow in dearness <br>Had we but felt its wings <br>Astir. The air our very breathing fanned <br>It was so near at hand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once, many days ago, we almost held it, <br>The love we so desired; <br>But our shut eyes saw not, and fate dispelled it <br>Before our pulses fired <br>To flame, and errant fortune bade us stand <br>Hand almost touching hand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sometimes think had we two been discerning, <br>The by-path hid away <br>From others' eyes had then revealed its turning <br>To us, nor led astray <br>Our footsteps, guiding us into love's land <br>That lay so near at hand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So near at hand, dear heart, could we have known it! <br>Throughout those dreamy hours, <br>Had either loved, or loving had we shown it, <br>Response had sure been ours; <br>We did not know that heart could heart command, <br>And love so near at hand! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What then availed the red wine's subtle glisten? <br>We passed it blindly by, <br>And now what profit that we wait and listen <br>Each for the other's heart beat? Ah! the cry <br>Of love o'erlooked still lingers, you and I <br>Sought heaven afar, we did not understand <br>'Twas--once so near at hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Emily+Pauline+Johnson">Emily Pauline Johnson</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=386553" data-title="Close by de Emily Pauline Johnson" data-description="So near at hand (our eyes o'erlooked its nearness In search of distant things) A dear dream lay--perchance to grow in dearness Had we but felt its wings Astir. The air our very breathing fanned It was so near at hand. Once, many days ago, w..."></div> </div> </div>

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