<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396201" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Chain I Gave: From The Turkish</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The chain I gave was fair to view,<br>The lute I added sweet in sound;<br>The heart that offer'd both was true,<br>And ill deserved the fate it found.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These gifts were charm'd by secret spell,<br>Thy truth in absence to divine; <br>And they have done their duty well,<br>Alas! they could not teach the thine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That chain was firm in every link,<br>But not to bear a stranger's touch; <br>That lute was sweet, till thou could'st think<br>In other hands its notes were such.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let him who from thy neck unbound<br>The chain which shiver'd in his grasp,<br>Who saw that lute refuse to sound, <br>Restring the chords, renew the clasp.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When thou wert changed, they alter'd too;<br>The chain is broke, the music mute.<br>'Tis past, to them and thee adieu<br>False heart, frail chain, and silent lute.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</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=396201" data-title="The Chain I Gave: From The Turkish de Byron" data-description="The chain I gave was fair to view, The lute I added sweet in sound; The heart that offer'd both was true, And ill deserved the fate it found. These gifts were charm'd by secret spell, Thy truth in absence to divine; And they have done their duty..."></div> </div> </div>

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