<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391611" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Image In Lava</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou thing of years departed!<br>What ages have gone by,<br>Since here the mournful seal was set<br>By love and agony! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Temple and tower have moulder'd,<br>Empires from earth have pass'd,<br>And woman's heart hath left a trace<br>Those glories to outlast! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And childhood's fragile image<br>Thus fearfully enshrin'd,<br>Survives the proud memorials rear'd<br>By conquerors of mankind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Babe! wert thou brightly slumbering<br>Upon thy mother's breast,<br>When suddenly the fiery tomb<br>Shut round each gentle guest? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A strange, dark fate o'ertook you,<br>Fair babe and loving heart!<br>One moment of a thousand pangs<br>Yet better than to part! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haply of that fond bosom<br>On ashes here impress'd,<br>Thou wert the only treasure, child!<br>Whereon a hope might rest. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perchance all vainly lavish'd<br>Its other love had been,<br>And where it trusted, nought remain'd<br>But thorns on which to lean. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far better then to perish,<br>Thy form within its clasp,<br>Than live and lose thee, precious one!<br>From that impassion'd grasp. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! I could pass all relics<br>Left by the pomps of old,<br>To gaze on this rude monument,<br>Cast in affection's mould. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love, human love! what art thou?<br>Thy print upon the dust<br>Outlives the cities of renown<br>Wherein the mighty trust! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Immortal, oh! immortal<br>Thou art, whose earthly glow<br>Hath given these ashes holiness<br>It must, it must be so!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Felicia+Dorothea+Hemans">Felicia Dorothea Hemans</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=391611" data-title="The Image In Lava de Felicia Dorothea Hemans" data-description="Thou thing of years departed! What ages have gone by, Since here the mournful seal was set By love and agony! Temple and tower have moulder'd, Empires from earth have pass'd, And woman's heart hath left a trace Those glories to outlast! And ch..."></div> </div> </div>

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