<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418201" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Gates of Innocence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up round St John Street we walked one night, while moonlight brightly glowed, <br>My arm around you, yours round me, with two friends long ago. <br>So deep into love’s old sweet dream in moments now long flown, <br>And like a leaf upon the breeze my heart was not my own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh the road to winning you was fraught, with quicksands all the way. <br>I sank and swam, I walked and ran, I wooed you night and day, <br>To simply hold your hand so soft, or gaze on eyes so blue, <br>In steep green fields at Clachanmore when I worked next to you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But no moon nor love could quite foresee that I would wriggle free, <br>Against my heart, against my will, somewhat regretfully.<br>The roads we walked were soon to part, to sever us for ill, <br>To leave the Crescent we once walked, to ghosts that haunt me still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the thoughts that circle round me here, they strengthen with the night.<br>As if the years have fallen to that young love’s breathless might, <br>Your eyes beguiled the doubting stars and left me void of sense, <br>Before the moments we fell through, the gates of innocence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the moonlight shines less brightly on the lonely fields we cleared, <br>And St John Street is not as sweet as when I held you dear.<br>The friends we walked with on that night still walk together yet.<br>The full moon’s promise holds as true, as when we two last met.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">chorus<br>The winds blow cold on those steep green fields<br>And strangers walk down St John Street <br>I’ve walked the crescent where love grew<br>Where innocence once sheltered me and you</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jim+Hogg">Jim 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=418201" data-title="The Gates of Innocence de Jim Hogg" data-description="Up round St John Street we walked one night, while moonlight brightly glowed, /My arm around you, yours round me, with two friends long ago. /So deep into love’s old sweet dream in moments now long flown, /And like a leaf upon the breeze my hear..."></div> </div> </div>

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