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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409749" 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> &quot;Forever -- never! <br> Never -- forever!&quot; <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> &quot;Forever -- never! <br> Never -- forever!&quot; </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> &quot;Forever -- never! <br> Never -- forever!&quot; </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> &quot;Forever -- never! <br> Never -- forever!&quot; </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> &quot;Forever -- never! <br> Never -- forever!&quot; </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> &quot;Forever -- never! <br> Never -- forever!&quot; </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> &quot;Forever -- never! <br> Never -- forever!&quot; </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> &quot;Ah! when shall they all meet again?&quot; <br> As in the days long since gone by, <br> The ancient timepiece makes reply, -- <br> &quot;Forever -- never! <br> Never -- forever!&quot; </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> &quot;Forever -- never! <br> Never -- forever!&quot;</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, -- 
 &quot;Forever -- never..."></div>
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