<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390124" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Libera Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Goddess the laughter-loving, Aphrodite, befriend!<br>Long have I served thine altars, serve me now at the end,<br>Let me have peace of thee, truce of thee, golden one, send.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heart of my heart have I offered thee, pain of my pain,<br>Yielding my life for the love of thee into thy chain;<br>Lady and goddess be merciful, loose me again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All things I had that were fairest, my dearest and best,<br>Fed the fierce flames on thine altar: ah, surely, my breast<br>Shrined thee alone among goddesses, spurning the rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blossom of youth thou hast plucked of me, flower of my days;<br>Stinted I nought in thine honouring, walked in thy ways,<br>Song of my soul pouring out to thee, all in thy praise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fierce was the flame while it lasted, and strong was thy wine,<br>Meet for immortals that die not, for throats such as thine,<br>Too fierce for bodies of mortals, too potent for mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blossom and bloom hast thou taken, now render to me<br>Ashes of life that remain to me, few though they be,<br>Truce of the love of thee, Cyprian, let me go free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Goddess the laughter-loving, Aphrodite, restore<br>Life to the limbs of me, liberty, hold me no more<br>Having the first-fruits and flower of me, cast me the core.</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=390124" data-title="Libera Me de Ernest Christopher Dowson" data-description="Goddess the laughter-loving, Aphrodite, befriend! Long have I served thine altars, serve me now at the end, Let me have peace of thee, truce of thee, golden one, send. Heart of my heart have I offered thee, pain of my pain, Yielding my life for t..."></div> </div> </div>

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