<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416844" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Same Old Story</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The same old story told again--<br>The maiden droops her head,<br>The ripening glow of her crimson cheek<br>Is answering in her stead.<br>The pleading tone of a trembling voice<br>Is telling her the way<br>He loved her when his heart was young<br>In Youth's sunshiny day:<br>The trembling tongue, the longing tone,<br>Imploringly ask why<br>They can not be as happy now<br>As in the days gone by.<br>And two more hearts, tumultuous<br>With overflowing joy,<br>Are dancing to the music<br>Which that dear, provoking boy<br>Is twanging on his bowstring,<br>As, fluttering his wings,<br>He sends his love-charged arrows<br>While merrily be sings:<br>'Ho! ho! my dainty maiden,<br>It surely can not be<br>You are thinking you are master<br>Of your heart, when it is me.'<br>And another gleaming arrow<br>Does the little god's behest,<br>And the dainty little maiden<br>Falls upon her lover's breast.<br>'The same old story told again,'<br>And listened o'er and o'er,<br>Will still be new, and pleasing, too,<br>Till 'Time shall be no more.'</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=416844" data-title="The Same Old Story de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="The same old story told again-- The maiden droops her head, The ripening glow of her crimson cheek Is answering in her stead. The pleading tone of a trembling voice Is telling her the way He loved her when his heart was young In Youth's sunshiny d..."></div> </div> </div>

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