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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393447" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Laura (Mystery Of Reminiscence)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who and what gave to me the wish to woo thee--<br>Still, lip to lip, to cling for aye unto thee?<br>Who made thy glances to my soul the link--<br>Who bade me burn thy very breath to drink--<br>My life in thine to sink?<br>As from the conqueror's unresisted glaive,<br>Flies, without strife subdued, the ready slave--<br>So, when to life's unguarded fort, I see<br>Thy gaze draw near and near triumphantly--<br>Yields not my soul to thee?<br>Why from its lord doth thus my soul depart?--<br>Is it because its native home thou art?<br>Or were they brothers in the days of yore,<br>Twin-bound both souls, and in the link they bore<br>Sigh to be bound once more?<br>Were once our beings blent and intertwining,<br>And therefore still my heart for thine is pining?<br>Knew we the light of some extinguished sun--<br>The joys remote of some bright realm undone,<br>Where once our souls were ONE?<br>Yes, it is so!--And thou wert bound to me<br>In the long-vanish'd Eld eternally!<br>In the dark troubled tablets which enroll<br>The Past--my Muse beheld this blessed scroll--<br>&quot;One with thy love my soul!&quot;<br>Oh yes, I learned in awe, when gazing there,<br>How once one bright inseparate life we were,<br>How once, one glorious essence as a God,<br>Unmeasured space our chainless footsteps trod--<br>All Nature our abode!<br>Round us, in waters of delight, forever<br>Voluptuous flowed the heavenly Nectar river;<br>We were the master of the seal of things,<br>And where the sunshine bathed Truth's mountain-springs<br>Quivered our glancing wings.<br>Weep for the godlike life we lost afar--<br>Weep!--thou and I its scattered fragments are;<br>And still the unconquered yearning we retain--<br>Sigh to restore the rapture and the reign,<br>And grow divine again.<br>And therefore came to me the wish to woo thee--<br>Still, lip to lip, to cling for aye unto thee;<br>This made thy glances to my soul the link--<br>This made me burn thy very breath to drink--<br>My life in thine to sink;<br>And therefore, as before the conqueror's glaive,<br>Flies, without strife subdued, the ready slave,<br>So, when to life's unguarded fort, I see<br>Thy gaze draw near and near triumphantly--<br>Yieldeth my soul to thee!<br>Therefore my soul doth from its lord depart,<br>Because, beloved, its native home thou art;<br>Because the twins recall the links they bore,<br>And soul with soul, in the sweet kiss of yore,<br>Meets and unites once more!<br>Thou, too--Ah, there thy gaze upon me dwells,<br>And thy young blush the tender answer tells;<br>Yes! with the dear relation still we thrill,<br>Both lives--though exiles from the homeward hill--<br>One life--all glowing still!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Friedrich+Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a><div class=q>
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Still, lip to lip, to cling for aye unto thee?
Who made thy glances to my soul the link--
Who bade me burn thy very breath to drink--
My life in thine to sink?
As from the conqueror's unresisted glaiv..."></div>
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