<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391619" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Laplander To His Rein-Deer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HOW long, oh, my faithful companion and guide!<br>Thou hast wafted o'er deserts my car!<br>How oft, oh, my rein-deer! thy speed has been tried,<br>O'er mountains unknown and afar!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But thy youth is departed, thy fire is no more,<br>And thy limbs all their vigor have lost;<br>For age steals upon thee, relentless and hoar,<br>And colder than winter his frost!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When friendship, or pleasure, invited away,<br>Thou hast borne me o'er valleys and plains;<br>Untir'd with the dangers, the toils of the day,<br>While the road was beguil'd by my strains!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When love gave the word, o'er the landscape of snow,<br>We flew like the wings of the wind!<br>In this ice-cover'd region, his sun-beam may glow, <br>To melt and to soften the mind!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But thy youth is departed, thy spirit and grace,<br>And thy limbs all their vigor have lost;<br>For age steals upon thee with lingering pace,<br>And colder than winter his frost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How oft has the summer, in mantle of green,<br>Array'd the wild Tenglio's side;<br>Since thou, oh, my rein-deer! my servant hast been,<br>My faithful companion and guide!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When we journey'd together, and both in our prime,<br>How fleet were thy steps o'er the waste;<br>But fleeter than thee, oh, my rein-deer! is time, <br>More swift, more unsparing in haste!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For thy youth is departed, thy spirit is fled,<br>And thy limbs all their vigor have lost;<br>Now age steals upon thee, unwelcome and dread,<br>And colder than winter his frost!</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=391619" data-title="The Laplander To His Rein-Deer de Felicia Dorothea Hemans" data-description="HOW long, oh, my faithful companion and guide! Thou hast wafted o'er deserts my car! How oft, oh, my rein-deer! thy speed has been tried, O'er mountains unknown and afar! But thy youth is departed, thy fire is no more, And thy limbs all their vig..."></div> </div> </div>

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