<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415847" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Father's Lament</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can you bid this heart be blithe,<br>When blithe this heart can never be?<br>I've lost the jewel from my crown - <br>Look round our circle, and you'll see<br>That there is ane out o' the ring<br>Who never can forgotten be - <br>Ay, there's a blank at my right hand,<br>That ne'er can be made up to me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis said, as water wears the rock,<br>That time wears out the deepest line;<br>It may be true wi' hearts enow,<br>But never can apply to mine.<br>For I have learn'd to know and feel - <br>Though losses should forgotten be - <br>That still the blank at my right hand<br>Can never be made up to me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I blame not Providence's sway,<br>For I have many joys beside;<br>And fain would I in grateful way<br>Enjoy the same, whate'er betide.<br>A mortal thing should ne'er repine,<br>But stoop to supreme decree;<br>Yet oh! the blank at my right hand<br>Can never be made up to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Hogg">James 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=415847" data-title="The Father's Lament de James Hogg" data-description="How can you bid this heart be blithe, When blithe this heart can never be? I've lost the jewel from my crown - Look round our circle, and you'll see That there is ane out o' the ring Who never can forgotten be - Ay, there's a blank at my right h..."></div> </div> </div>

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