<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392007" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Epilogue</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I have studied here in part<br>A tale as old as maiden's heart,<br>'Tis that I do see herein<br>Shadow of more piteous sin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She, that but giving part, not whole,<br>Took even the part back, is the Soul:<br>And that so disdain-ed Lover--<br>Best unthought, since Love is over.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love to invite, desire, and fear,<br>And Love's exactions cost too dear<br>Count for Love's possession,--ah,<br>Thy way, misera Anima!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To give the pledge, and yet be pined<br>That a pledge should have force to bind,<br>This, O Soul, too often still<br>Is the recreance of thy will!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out of Love's arms to make fond chain,<br>And, because struggle bringeth pain,<br>Hate Love for Love's sweet constraint,<br>Is the way of Souls that faint.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such a Soul, for saddest end,<br>Finds Love the foe in Love the friend;<br>And--ah, grief incredible!--<br>Treads the way of Heaven, to Hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Thompson">Francis Thompson</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=392007" data-title="Epilogue de Francis Thompson" data-description="If I have studied here in part A tale as old as maiden's heart, 'Tis that I do see herein Shadow of more piteous sin. She, that but giving part, not whole, Took even the part back, is the Soul: And that so disdain-ed Lover-- Best unthought, since..."></div> </div> </div>

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