<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409742" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Meeting</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">After so long an absence <br>At last we meet agin: <br>Does the meeting give us pleasure, <br>Or does it give us pain? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tree of life has been shaken, <br>And but few of us linger now, <br>Like the prophets two or three berries <br>In the top of the uppermost bough. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We cordially greet each other <br>In the old, familiar tone; <br>And we think, though we do not say it, <br>How old and gray he is grown! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We speak of a Merry Christmas <br>And many a Happy New Year; <br>But each in his heart is thinking <br>Of those that are not here. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We speak of friends and their fortunes, <br>And of what they did and said, <br>Till the dead alone seem living, <br>And the living alone seem dead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And at last we hardly distinguish <br>Between the ghosts and the guests; <br>And a mist and shadow of sadness <br>Steals over our merriest jests.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</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=409742" data-title="The Meeting de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="After so long an absence At last we meet agin: Does the meeting give us pleasure, Or does it give us pain? The tree of life has been shaken, And but few of us linger now, Like the prophets two or three berries In the top of the uppermost b..."></div> </div> </div>

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