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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400165" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When in history, stories and poems I read (Sonnet Corona)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(after William Shakespeare) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When in history, stories and poems I read<br>about the greatest, the most fair persons<br>with the remarkable lives they did lead, <br>of knights guarding ladies for some reasons</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then in you my lovely darling princess, <br>I see in everything, even your brow<br>more beauty than pens of old did express<br>and in the lovely looks that are yours now</div><div style="margin:10px 0">is such exceeding glorious, awesome grace, <br>that all declarations prefigure you<br>up to this very moment in time and space, <br>are just substitutes trying to hold true, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to you the world is waiting as if ready, <br>arise - walk into my arms, my lady.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Arise - walk into my arms, my lady, <br>rise up my beloved true companion<br>the hot bright summer sun is already<br>falling with a love filled emotion</div><div style="margin:10px 0">on the pure white leaves of the lilies, <br>the finches are already twittering<br>the wind is passing quick like young fillies<br>and outside the entire world is stirring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rise up my sweetest white lovely rose<br>and awake to the blessed bright morning, <br>arise from you tranquil kind of repose <br>and experience the greatness of spring, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">of everything that’s good, great and living, <br>hear the joyous songs, the alluring feeling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hear the joyous songs, the alluring feeling, <br>from what is held as a true loveliness, <br>others have just some features been stealing; <br>your looks, grace, personality do not digress.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not doom or the evil works of destiny<br>can control each and every coming thing, <br>can totally control either you or me, <br>or the pure fountain from where all things spring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Neither is my love for you controlled by<br>events, people or situations that impact on it<br>as I have many kinds of choices that lie<br>in my two hands, that changes bit by bit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In all kinds of things I want to be true, <br>may my lines only express love to you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">May my lines only express love to you, <br>tell no lies and not lack in sincerity<br>and whatever I now say and I do<br>become deeper and carry more integrity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As constantly my love grows intense<br>and with time it becomes much clearer<br>that at no one else’s pain or expense, <br>that you are now becoming much dearer</div><div style="margin:10px 0">than that what you used to be to me<br>and although I thought that no other love<br>could ever be more sincere and free<br>more intense, or could still more improve, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">our love is better than only moments ago<br>while it still have hours, days and years to grow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While it still have hours, days and years to grow<br>to our love, may these words be our monument, <br>may it in sincerity forever glow<br>may it stay, when everything else is spent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These words are left by me as did others<br>but all of my sincere feelings for you<br>must not contain anything that bothers<br>as they are full of integrity and true</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and we might only be like the moth and flame<br>attracted to light and differences <br>but the feelings still do remain the same, <br>which I do profane as does the consequences</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and still I am just trying to stay true, <br>even in rout I keep honouring you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	<br>VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even in rout I keep honouring you, <br>I who have nothing, but sincerity, <br>I must be able to find something true, <br>in the extreme darkness that surrounds me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I see the lights of heaven glancing<br>through your lovely clear sun filled eyes, <br>when you are smiling so all-embracing<br>I am not bothered by any cloudy skies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was but still extremely young, <br>I walked through the veldt many a mile, <br>the loveliest sight did to the sky belong<br>while I was lost in its hot sunshine smile, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was seeing the world through childlike eyes, <br>when I was sincere, stripped from lies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was sincere, stripped from lies; <br>I was wondering what to find in darkness<br>that is just as clear as the bright blue skies, <br>that is honourable, free from wickedness? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When most of my days are quickly rushing past<br>will you then as now, still truly love me, <br>in old age, when any day can be my last? <br>Will you still be happy, laugh joyously, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">be here to keep me with sweet company<br>when I am broken by destiny in contrast<br>to the young man that I used to be, <br>when all of the good things in life do pass? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Will I then still feel your body’s true heat, <br>when in history, stories and poems I read?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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When in history, stories and poems I read
about the greatest, the most fair persons
with the remarkable lives they did lead, 
of knights guarding ladies for some reasons

then in you my lovely darling princess, 
I ..."></div>
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