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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416552" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Old Sweetheart Of Mine</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone,<br>And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known,<br>So I turn the leaves of Fancy, till in shadowy design<br>I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lamplight seems to glimmer with a flicker of surprise,<br>As I turn it low, to rest me of the dazzle in my eyes,<br>And light my pipe in silence, save a sigh that seems to yoke<br>Its fate with my tobacco, and to vanish with the smoke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis a fragrant retrospection, for the loving thoughts that start<br>Into being are like perfumes from the blossom of the heart;<br>And to dream the old dreams over is a luxury divine—<br>When my truant fancies wander with that old sweetheart of mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though I hear, beneath my study, like a fluttering of wings,<br>The voices of my children and the mother as she sings,<br>I feel no twinge of conscience to deny me any theme<br>When Care has cast her anchor in the harbor of a dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In fact, to speak in earnest, I believe it adds a charm<br>To spice the good a trifle with a little dust of harm;<br>For I find an extra flavor in Memory's mellow wine<br>That makes me drink the deeper to that old sweetheart of mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A face of lily-beauty, with a form of airy grace,<br>Floats out of my tobacco as the genii from the vase;<br>And I thrill beneath the glances of a pair of azure eyes,<br>As glowing as the summer and as tender as the skies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can see the pink sunbonnet and the little checkered dress<br>She wore when first I kissed her, and she answered the caress<br>With the written declaration that, 'as surely as the vine<br>Grew round the stump,' she loved me,—that old sweetheart of mine!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And again I feel the pressure of her slender little hand,<br>As we used to talk together of the future we had planned:<br>When I should be a poet, and with nothing else to do<br>But write the tender verses that she set the music to;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When we should live together in a cozy little cot,<br>Hid in a nest of roses, with a fairy garden-spot,<br>Where the vines were ever fruited, and the weather ever fine,<br>And the birds were ever singing for that old sweetheart of mine;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I should be her lover forever and a day,<br>And she my faithful sweetheart till the golden hair was gray;<br>And we should be so happy that when either's lips were dumb<br>They would not smile in heaven till the other's kiss had come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But ah! my dream is broken by a step upon the stair,<br>And the door is softly opened, and my wife is standing there!<br>Yet with eagerness and rapture all my visions I resign<br>To greet the living presence of that old sweetheart of mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q>
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