<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393292" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bond</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once, I remember, when we were at home <br>I had come into church, and waited late, <br>Ere lastly kneeling to communicate <br>Alone : and thinking that you would not come. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, with closed eyes (having received the Host) <br>I prayed for your dear self, and turned to rise ; <br>When lo ! beside me like a blessed ghost — <br>Nay, a grave sunbeam — you I Scarcely my eyes <br>Could credit it, so softly had you come <br>Beside me as I thought I walked alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus long ago ; but now, when fate bereaves <br>Life of old joys, how often as I'm kneeling <br>To take the Blessed Sacrifice that weaves <br>Life's tangled threads, so broken to man's seeing, <br>Into one whole ; I have the sudden feeling <br>That you are by, and look to see a face <br>Made in fair flesh beside me, and all my being <br>Thrills with the old sweet wonder and faint fear <br>As in that sabbath hour — how long ago ! — <br>When you had crept so lightly to your place. <br>Then, then, I know <br>(My heart can always tell) that you are near.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frederick+William+Harvey">Frederick William Harvey</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=393292" data-title="The Bond de Frederick William Harvey" data-description="Once, I remember, when we were at home I had come into church, and waited late, Ere lastly kneeling to communicate Alone : and thinking that you would not come. Then, with closed eyes (having received the Host) I prayed for your dear self, a..."></div> </div> </div>

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