<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390097" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Amor Profanus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beyond the pale of memory,<br>In some mysterious dusky grove;<br>A place of shadows utterly,<br>Where never coos the turtle-dove,<br>A world forgotten of the sun:<br>I dreamed we met when day was done,<br>And marvelled at our ancient love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Met there by chance, long kept apart,<br>We wandered through the darkling glades;<br>And that old language of the heart<br>We sought to speak: alas! poor shades!<br>Over our pallid lips had run<br>The waters of oblivion,<br>Which crown all loves of men or maids.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In vain we stammered: from afar<br>Our old desire shone cold and dead:<br>That time was distant as a star,<br>When eyes were bright and lips were red.<br>And still we went with downcast eye<br>And no delight in being nigh,<br>Poor shadows most uncomforted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, Lalage! while life is ours,<br>Hoard not thy beauty rose and white,<br>But pluck the pretty fleeing flowers<br>That deck our little path of light:<br>For all too soon we twain shall tread<br>The bitter pastures of the dead:<br>Estranged, sad spectres of the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ernest+Christopher+Dowson">Ernest Christopher Dowson</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=390097" data-title="Amor Profanus de Ernest Christopher Dowson" data-description="Beyond the pale of memory, In some mysterious dusky grove; A place of shadows utterly, Where never coos the turtle-dove, A world forgotten of the sun: I dreamed we met when day was done, And marvelled at our ancient love. Met there by chance, lon..."></div> </div> </div>

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