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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408386" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sitting by the Fire</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Barren Age and withered World!<br>Oh! the dying leaves,<br>Like a drizzling rain,<br>Falling round the roof -<br>Pattering on the pane!<br>Frosty Age and cold, cold World!<br>Ghosts of other days,<br>Trooping past the faded fire,<br>Flit before the gaze.<br>Now the wind goes soughing wild<br>O'er the whistling Earth;<br>And we front a feeble flame,<br>Sitting round the hearth!<br>Sitting by the fire,<br>Watching in its glow,<br>Ghosts of other days<br>Trooping to and fro.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, the nights - the nights we've spent,<br>Sitting by the fire,<br>Cheerful in its glow;<br>Twenty summers back -<br>Twenty years ago!<br>If the days were days of toil<br>Wherefore should we mourn;<br>There were shadows near the shine,<br>Flowers with the thorn?<br>And we still can recollect<br>Evenings spent in mirth -<br>Fragments of a broken life,<br>Sitting round the hearth:<br>Sitting by the fire,<br>Cheerful in its glow,<br>Twenty summers back -<br>Twenty years ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beauty stooped to bless us once,<br>Sitting by the fire,<br>Happy in its glow;<br>Forty summers back -<br>Forty years ago.<br>Words of love were interchanged,<br>Maiden hearts we stole;<br>And the light affection throws<br>Slept on every soul.<br>Oh, the hours went flying past -<br>Hours of priceless worth;<br>But we took no note of Time,<br>Sitting round the hearth:<br>Sitting by the fire,<br>Happy in its glow,<br>Forty summers back -<br>Forty years ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gleesome children were we not?<br>Sitting by the fire,<br>Ruddy in its glow,<br>Sixty summers back -<br>Sixty years ago.<br>Laughing voices filled the room;<br>Oh, the songs we sung,<br>When the evenings hurried by -<br>When our hearts were young!<br>Pleasant faces watched the flame -<br>Eyes illumed with mirth -<br>And we told some merry tales,<br>Sitting round the hearth:<br>Sitting by the fire,<br>Ruddy in its glow,<br>Sixty summers back -<br>Sixty years ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Barren Age and withered World!<br>Oh, the dying leaves,<br>Like a drizzling rain,<br>Falling round the roof -<br>Pattering on the pane!<br>Frosty Age and cold, cold World!<br>Ghosts of other days,<br>Trooping past the faded fire,<br>Flit before the gaze.<br>Now the wind goes soughing wild<br>O'er the whistling Earth;<br>And we front a feeble flame,<br>Sitting round the hearth:<br>Sitting by the fire,<br>Watching, in its glow,<br>Ghosts of other days<br>Trooping to and fro!</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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Oh! the dying leaves,
Like a drizzling rain,
Falling round the roof -
Pattering on the pane!
Frosty Age and cold, cold World!
Ghosts of other days,
Trooping past the faded fire,
Flit before the gaze.
Now the wind goe..."></div>
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