<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408405" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Girl I Left Behind Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With sweet Regret — (the dearest thing that Yesterday has left us) —<br>We often turn our homeless eyes to scenes whence Fate has reft us.<br>Here sitting by a fading flame, wild waifs of song remind me<br>Of Annie with her gentle ways, the Girl I left behind me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stood beside the surging sea, with lips of silent passion —<br>I faced you by the surging sea, O brows of mild repression!<br>I never said — “my darling, stay!” — the moments seemed to bind me<br>To something stifling all my words for the Girl I left behind me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pathos worn by common things — by every wayside flower,<br>Or Autumn leaf on lonely winds, revives the parting hour.<br>Ye swooning thoughts without a voice — ye tears which rose to blind me,<br>Why did she fade into the Dark, the Girl I left behind me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At night they always come to me, the tender and true-hearted;<br>And in my dreams we join again the hands which now are parted;<br>And, looking through the gates of Sleep, the pleasant Moon doth find me<br>For ever wandering with my Love, the Girl I left behind me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You know my life is incomplete, O far-off faint Ideal!<br>When shall I reach you from a depth of darkness which is real?<br>So I may mingle, soul in soul, with her that Heaven assigned me;<br>So she may lean upon my love, the Girl I left behind me.</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> <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=408405" data-title="The Girl I Left Behind Me de Henry Kendall" data-description="With sweet Regret — (the dearest thing that Yesterday has left us) — We often turn our homeless eyes to scenes whence Fate has reft us. Here sitting by a fading flame, wild waifs of song remind me Of Annie with her gentle ways, the Girl I left..."></div> </div> </div>

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