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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409748" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Clock on the Stairs</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Somewhat back from the village street <br>Stands the old-fashioned country-seat. <br>Across its antique portico <br>Tall poplar-trees their shadows throw; <br>And from its station in the hall <br>An ancient timepiece says to all, - <br>'Forever - never! <br>Never - forever!' <br>Half-way up the stairs it stands, <br>And points and beckons with its hands <br>From its case of massive oak, <br>Like a monk, who, under his cloak, <br>Crosses himself, and sighs, alas! <br>With sorrowful voice to all who pass, - <br>'Forever - never! <br>Never - forever!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By day its voice is low and light; <br>But in the silent dead of night, <br>Distinct as a passing footstep's fall, <br>It echoes along the vacant hall, <br>Along the ceiling, along the floor, <br>And seems to say, at each chamber-door, - <br>'Forever - never! <br>Never - forever!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through days of sorrow and of mirth, <br>Through days of death and days of birth, <br>Through every swift vicissitude <br>Of changeful time, unchanged it has stood, <br>And as if, like God, it all things saw, <br>It calmly repeats those words of awe, - <br>'Forever - never! <br>Never - forever!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In that mansion used to be <br>Free-hearted Hospitality; <br>His great fires up the chimney roared; <br>The stranger feasted at his board; <br>But, like the skeleton at the feast, <br>That warning timepiece never ceased, - <br>'Forever - never! <br>Never - forever!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There groups of merry children played, <br>There youths and maidens dreaming strayed; <br>O precious hours! O golden prime, <br>And affluence of love and time! <br>Even as a miser counts his gold, <br>Those hours the ancient timepiece told, - <br>'Forever - never! <br>Never - forever!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From that chamber, clothed in white, <br>The bride came forth on her wedding night; <br>There, in that silent room below, <br>The dead lay in his shroud of snow; <br>And in the hush that followed the prayer, <br>Was heard the old clock on the stair, - <br>'Forever - never! <br>Never - forever!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All are scattered now and fled, <br>Some are married, some are dead; <br>And when I ask, with throbs of pain, <br>'Ah! when shall they all meet again?' <br>As in the days long since gone by, <br>The ancient timepiece makes reply, - <br>'Forever - never! <br>Never - forever!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never here, forever there, <br>Where all parting, pain, and care, <br>And death, and time shall disappear, - <br>Forever there, but never here! <br>The horologe of Eternity <br>Sayeth this incessantly, - <br>'Forever - never! <br>Never - forever!'</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>
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Stands the old-fashioned country-seat. 
Across its antique portico 
Tall poplar-trees their shadows throw; 
And from its station in the hall 
An ancient timepiece says to all, - 
'Forever - never! 
Never - fo..."></div>
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