<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396795" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Modern Love XLII: I Am to Follow Her</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am to follow her. There is much grace <br>In woman when thus bent on martyrdom. <br>They think that dignity of soul may come, <br>Perchance, with dignity of body. Base! <br>But I was taken by that air of cold <br>And statuesque sedateness, when she said <br>'I'm going'; lit a taper, bowed her head, <br>And went, as with the stride of Pallas bold. <br>Fleshly indifference horrible! The hands <br>Of Time now signal: O, she's safe from me! <br>Within those secret walls what do I see <br>Where first she set the taper down she stands: <br>Not Pallas: Hebe shamed! Thoughts black as death, <br>Like a stirred pool in sunshine break. Her wrists <br>I catch: she faltering, as she half resists, <br>'You love. . . ? love. . . ? love. . . ?' all on an in-drawn breath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Meredith">George Meredith</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=396795" data-title="Modern Love XLII: I Am to Follow Her de George Meredith" data-description="I am to follow her. There is much grace In woman when thus bent on martyrdom. They think that dignity of soul may come, Perchance, with dignity of body. Base! But I was taken by that air of cold And statuesque sedateness, when she said 'I'm ..."></div> </div> </div>

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