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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408268" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At Long Bay</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FIVE years ago! you cannot choose<br>But know the face of change,<br>Though July sleeps and Spring renews<br>The gloss in gorge and range.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Five years ago! I hardly know<br>How they have slipped away,<br>Since here we watched at ebb and flow<br>The waters of the Bay;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And saw, with eyes of little faith,<br>From cumbered summits fade<br>The rainbow and the rainbow wraith,<br>That shadow of a shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Love and Youth were vext with doubt,<br>Like ships on driving seas,<br>And in those days the heart gave out<br>Unthankful similes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But let it be! I’ve often said<br>His lot was hardly cast<br>Who never turned a happy head<br>To an unhappy Past—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who never turned a face of light<br>To cares beyond recall:<br>He only fares in sorer plight<br>Who hath no Past at all!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So take my faith, and let it stand<br>Between us for a sign<br>That five bright years have known the land<br>Since yonder tumbled line</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of seacliff took our troubled talk—<br>The words at random thrown,<br>And Echo lived about this walk<br>Of gap and slimy stone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here first we learned the Love which leaves<br>No lack or loss behind,<br>The dark, sweet Love which woos the eves<br>And haunts the morning wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And roves with runnels in the dell,<br>And houses by the wave<br>What time the storm hath struck the fell<br>And Terror fills the cave—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Love, you know, that lives and lies<br>For moments past control,<br>And mellows through the Poet’s eyes<br>And sweetens in his soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here first we faced a briny breeze,<br>What time the middle gale<br>Went shrilling over whitened seas<br>With flying towers of sail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And here we heard the plovers call<br>As shattered pauses came,<br>When Heaven showed a fiery wall<br>With sheets of wasted flame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here grebe and gull and heavy glede<br>Passed eastward far away,<br>The while the wind, with slackened speed,<br>Drooped with the dying Day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And here our friendship, like a tree,<br>Perennial grew and grew,<br>Till you were glad to live for me,<br>And I to live for you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Kendall">Henry Kendall</a><div class=q>
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But know the face of change,
Though July sleeps and Spring renews
The gloss in gorge and range.

Five years ago! I hardly know
How they have slipped away,
Since here we watched at ebb and flow
The waters of the Ba..."></div>
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