<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414684" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The final Visitor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The slate blue clouds massed row on row<br> now dominate the evening sky<br>A lanthorn burns in my window<br>What does the lanthorn signify? <br>That I am old and stay at home<br> and that I welcome visitors<br>Infirmities won’t let me roam, <br> I dare not venture out of doors<br>I’m weary but I cannot sleep.<br>I smile as I recall the past<br>Though roads were rough and paths were steep.<br>I was young and unsurpassed<br> by any other youthful swain<br>Who sought for love illicitly.<br>Delights I can enjoy again<br> if only in my memory.<br>I have grown old, I’ve lived too long<br>I wait for death to visit me.<br>I won’t resist but go along<br> without protest and joyfully<br>Death knows my name and my abode<br> that I await him patiently<br>Each day I live is time borrowed<br>I must repay eventually<br>Perhaps my next life will be short<br> if I’ve won sufficient merit.<br>I comfort myself with this thought <br>and contemplate the infinite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=414684" data-title="The final Visitor de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="The slate blue clouds massed row on row now dominate the evening sky A lanthorn burns in my window What does the lanthorn signify? That I am old and stay at home and that I welcome visitors Infirmities won’t let me roam, I dare not venture ..."></div> </div> </div>

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