<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390882" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Epilogue</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day is done; and, lo! the shades<br>Melt 'neath Diana's mellow grace.<br>Hark, how those deep, designing maids<br>Feign terror in this sylvan place!<br>Come, friends, it's time that we should go;<br>We're honest married folk, you know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was not the wine delicious cool<br>Whose sweetness Pyrrha's smile enhanced?<br>And by that clear Bandusian pool<br>How gayly Chloe sung and danced!<br>And Lydia Die,--aha, methinks<br>You'll not forget the saucy minx!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, oh, the echoes of those songs<br>That soothed our cares and lulled our hearts!<br>Not to that age nor this belongs<br>The glory of what heaven-born arts<br>Speak with the old distinctive charm<br>From yonder humble Sabine farm!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day is done. Now off to bed,<br>Lest by some rural ruse surprised,<br>And by those artful girls misled,<br>You two be sadly compromised.<br>_You_ go; perhaps _I_'d better stay<br>To shoo the giddy things away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But sometime we shall meet again<br>Beside Digentia, cool and clear,--<br>You and we twain, old friend; and then<br>We'll have our fill of pagan cheer.<br>Then, could old Horace join us three,<br>How proud and happy he would be!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or if we part to meet no more<br>This side the misty Stygian Sea,<br>Be sure of this: on yonder shore<br>Sweet cheer awaiteth such as we;<br>A Sabine pagan's heaven, O friend,--<br>The fellowship that knows no end!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</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=390882" data-title="Epilogue de Eugene Field" data-description="The day is done; and, lo! the shades Melt 'neath Diana's mellow grace. Hark, how those deep, designing maids Feign terror in this sylvan place! Come, friends, it's time that we should go; We're honest married folk, you know. Was not the wine deli..."></div> </div> </div>

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