<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390905" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Horace To Maecenas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How breaks my heart to hear you say<br>You feel the shadows fall about you!<br>The gods forefend<br>That fate, O friend!<br>I would not, I could not live without you!<br>You gone, what would become of me,<br>Your shadow, O beloved Maecenas?<br>We've shared the mirth--<br>And sweets of earth--<br>Let's share the pangs of death between us!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I should not dread Chinaera's breath<br>Nor any threat of ghost infernal;<br>Nor fear nor pain<br>Should part us twain--<br>For so have willed the powers eternal.<br>No false allegiance have I sworn,<br>And, whatsoever fate betide you,<br>Mine be the part<br>To cheer your heart--<br>With loving song to fare beside you!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love snatched you from the claws of death<br>And gave you to the grateful city;<br>The falling tree<br>That threatened me<br>Did Fannus turn aside in pity;<br>With horoscopes so wondrous like,<br>Why question that we twain shall wander,<br>As in this land,<br>So, hand in hand,<br>Into the life that waiteth yonder?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So to your shrine, O patron mine,<br>With precious wine and victims fare you;<br>Poor as I am,<br>A humble lamb<br>Must testify what love I bear you.<br>But to the skies shall sweetly rise<br>The sacrifice from shrine and heather,<br>And thither bear<br>The solemn prayer<br>That, when we go, we go together!</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=390905" data-title="Horace To Maecenas de Eugene Field" data-description="How breaks my heart to hear you say You feel the shadows fall about you! The gods forefend That fate, O friend! I would not, I could not live without you! You gone, what would become of me, Your shadow, O beloved Maecenas? We've shared the mirth--..."></div> </div> </div>

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