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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416816" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Guitar</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Neglected now is the old guitar<br>And moldering into decay;<br>Fretted with many a rift and scar<br>That the dull dust hides away,<br>While the spider spins a silver star<br>In its silent lips to-day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The keys hold only nerveless strings--<br>The sinews of brave old airs<br>Are pulseless now; and the scarf that clings<br>So closely here declares<br>A sad regret in its ravelings<br>And the faded hue it wears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the old guitar, with a lenient grace,<br>Has cherished a smile for me;<br>And its features hint of a fairer face<br>That comes with a memory<br>Of a flower-and-perfume-haunted place<br>And a moonlit balcony.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Music sweeter than words confess,<br>Or the minstrel's powers invent,<br>Thrilled here once at the light caress<br>Of the fairy hands that lent<br>This excuse for the kiss I press<br>On the dear old instrument.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rose of pearl with the jeweled stem<br>Still blooms; and the tiny sets<br>In the circle all are here; the gem<br>In the keys, and the silver frets;<br>But the dainty fingers that danced o'er them--<br>Alas for the heart's regrets!--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas for the loosened strings to-day,<br>And the wounds of rift and scar<br>On a worn old heart, with its roundelay<br>Enthralled with a stronger bar<br>That Fate weaves on, through a dull decay<br>Like that of the old guitar!</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> <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=416816" data-title="The Old Guitar de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Neglected now is the old guitar And moldering into decay; Fretted with many a rift and scar That the dull dust hides away, While the spider spins a silver star In its silent lips to-day. The keys hold only nerveless strings-- The sinews of brave ..."></div> </div> </div>
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