<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416339" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lover's Fate</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hard is the fate of him who loves,<br>Yet dares not tell his trembling pain,<br>But to the sympathetic groves,<br>But to the lonely listening plain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! when she blesses next your shade,<br>Oh! when her footsteps next are seen<br>In flowery tracts along the mead,<br>In fresher mazes o'er the green;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye gentle spirits of the vale,<br>To whom the tears of love are dear,<br>From dying lilies waft a gale,<br>And sigh my sorrows in her ear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! tell her what she cannot blame,<br>Though fear my tongue must ever bind;<br>Oh, tell her, that my virtuous flame<br>Is, as her spotless soul, refined.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not her own guardian-angel eyes<br>With chaster tenderness his care,<br>Not purer her own wishes rise,<br>Not holier her own sighs in prayer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But if, at first, her virgin fear<br>Should start at love's suspected name,<br>With that of friendship soothe her ear -<br>True love and friendship are the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Thomson">James Thomson</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=416339" data-title="The Lover's Fate de James Thomson" data-description="Hard is the fate of him who loves, Yet dares not tell his trembling pain, But to the sympathetic groves, But to the lonely listening plain. Oh! when she blesses next your shade, Oh! when her footsteps next are seen In flowery tracts along the mea..."></div> </div> </div>

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