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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418595" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dedication - The Poems Of Goeth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scared</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gentle sleep that round my senses clung,<br>And I, awak'ning, from my cottage fared,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And up the mountain side with light heart sprung;<br>At every step I felt my gaze ensnared</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By new-born flow'rs that full of dew-drops hung;<br>The youthful day awoke with ecstacy,<br>And all things quicken'd were, to quicken me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as I mounted, from the valley rose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A streaky mist, that upward slowly spread,<br>Then bent, as though my form it would enclose,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, as on pinions, soar'd above my head:<br>My gaze could now on no fair view repose,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in mournful veil conceal'd, the world seem'd dead;<br>The clouds soon closed around me, as a tomb,<br>And I was left alone in twilight gloom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At once the sun his lustre seem'd to pour,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And through the mist was seen a radiant light;<br>Here sank it gently to the ground once more,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There parted it, and climb'd o'er wood and height.<br>How did I yearn to greet him as of yore,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After the darkness waxing doubly bright!<br>The airy conflict ofttimes was renew'd,<br>Then blinded by a dazzling glow I stood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ere long an inward impulse prompted me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A hasty glance with boldness round to throw;<br>At first mine eyes had scarcely strength to see,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For all around appear'd to burn and glow.<br>Then saw I, on the clouds borne gracefully,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A godlike woman hov'ring to and fro.<br>In life I ne'er had seen a form so fair--<br>She gazed at me, and still she hover'd there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Dost thou not know me?&quot; were the words she said</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In tones where love and faith were sweetly bound;<br>&quot;Knowest thou not Her who oftentimes hath shed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The purest balsam in each earthly wound?<br>Thou knows't me well; thy panting heart I led</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To join me in a bond with rapture crown'd.<br>Did I not see thee, when a stripling, yearning<br>To welcome me with tears, heartfelt and burning?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Yes!&quot; I exclaim'd, whilst, overcome with joy,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sank to earth; &quot;I long have worshipp'd thee;<br>Thou gav'st me rest, when passions rack'd the boy,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pervading ev'ry limb unceasingly;<br>Thy heav'nly pinions thou didst then employ</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The scorching sunbeams to ward off from me.<br>From thee alone Earth's fairest gifts I gain'd,<br>Through thee alone, true bliss can be obtain'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Thy name I know not; yet I hear thee nam'd</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By many a one who boasts thee as his own;<br>Each eye believes that tow'rd thy form 'tis aim'd,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet to most eyes thy rays are anguish-sown.<br>Ah! whilst I err'd, full many a friend I claim'd,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that I know thee, I am left alone;<br>With but myself can I my rapture share,<br>I needs must veil and hide thy radiance fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She smiled, and answering said: &quot;Thou see'st how wise,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How prudent 'twas but little to unveil!<br>Scarce from the clumsiest cheat are clear'd thine eyes,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scarce hast thou strength thy childish bars to scale,<br>When thou dost rank thee 'mongst the deities,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so man's duties to perform would'st fail!<br>How dost thou differ from all other men?<br>Live with the world in peace, and know thee then!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Oh, pardon me,&quot; I cried, &quot;I meant it well:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not vainly did'st thou bless mine eyes with light;<br>For in my blood glad aspirations swell,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The value of thy gifts I know aright!<br>Those treasures in my breast for others dwell,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The buried pound no more I'll hide from sight.<br>Why did I seek the road so anxiously,<br>If hidden from my brethren 'twere to be?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as I answer'd, tow'rd me turn'd her face,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With kindly sympathy, that god-like one;<br>Within her eye full plainly could I trace</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What I had fail'd in, and what rightly done.<br>She smiled, and cured me with that smile's sweet grace,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To new-born joys my spirit soar'd anon;<br>With inward confidence I now could dare<br>To draw yet closer, and observe her there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the light cloud she then stretch'd forth her hand,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As if to bid the streaky vapour fly:<br>At once it seemed to yield to her command,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Contracted, and no mist then met mine eye.<br>My glance once more survey'd the smiling land,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unclouded and serene appear'd the sky.<br>Nought but a veil of purest white she held,<br>And round her in a thousand folds it swell'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;I know thee, and I know thy wav'ring will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know the good that lives and glows in thee!&quot;--<br>Thus spake she, and methinks I hear her still--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;The prize long destined, now receive from me;<br>That blest one will be safe from ev'ry ill,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who takes this gift with soul of purity,--&quot;<br>The veil of Minstrelsy from Truth's own hand,<br>Of sunlight and of morn's sweet fragrance plann'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;And when thou and thy friends at fierce noon-day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are parched with heat, straight cast it in the air!<br>Then Zephyr's cooling breath will round you play,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Distilling balm and flowers' sweet incense there;<br>The tones of earthly woe will die away,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The grave become a bed of clouds so fair,<br>To sing to rest life's billows will be seen,<br>The day be lovely, and the night serene.&quot;--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come, then, my friends! and whensoe'er ye find</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon your way increase life's heavy load;<br>If by fresh-waken'd blessings flowers are twin'd</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Around your path, and golden fruits bestow'd,<br>We'll seek the coming day with joyous mind!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus blest, we'll live, thus wander on our road<br>And when our grandsons sorrow o'er our tomb,<br>Our love, to glad their bosoms, still shall bloom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a><div class=q>
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The gentle sleep that round my senses clung,
And I, awak'ning, from my cottage fared,

And up the mountain side with light heart sprung;
At every step I felt my gaze ensnared

By new-born flow'rs that..."></div>
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