<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396817" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Modern Love XXX: What Are We First</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What are we first? First, animals; and next <br>Intelligences at a leap; on whom <br>Pale lies the distant shadow of the tomb, <br>And all that draweth on the tomb for text. <br>Into which state comes Love, the crowning sun: <br>Beneath whose light the shadow loses form. <br>We are the lords of life, and life is warm. <br>Intelligence and instinct now are one. <br>But nature says: 'My children most they seem <br>When they least know me: therefore I decree <br>That they shall suffer.' Swift doth young Love flee, <br>And we stand wakened, shivering from our dream. <br>Then if we study Nature we are wise. <br>Thus do the few who live but with the day: <br>The scientific animals are they. <br>Lady, this is my sonnet to your eyes.</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=396817" data-title="Modern Love XXX: What Are We First de George Meredith" data-description="What are we first? First, animals; and next Intelligences at a leap; on whom Pale lies the distant shadow of the tomb, And all that draweth on the tomb for text. Into which state comes Love, the crowning sun: Beneath whose light the shadow lo..."></div> </div> </div>

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