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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418683" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Morning Lament</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">OH thou cruel deadly-lovely maiden,<br>Tell me what great sin have I committed,<br>That thou keep'st me to the rack thus fasten'd,<br>That thou hast thy solemn promise broken?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas but yestere'en that thou with fondness<br>Press'd my hand, and these sweet accents murmured:<br>&quot;Yes, I'll come, I'll come when morn approacheth,<br>Come, my friend, full surely to thy chamber.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the latch I left my doors, unfasten'd,<br>Having first with care tried all the hinges,<br>And rejoic'd right well to find they creak'd not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a night of expectation pass'd I!<br>For I watch'd, and ev'ry chime I number'd;<br>If perchance I slept a few short moments,<br>Still my heart remain'd awake forever,<br>And awoke me from my gentle slumbers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, then bless'd I night's o'erhanging darkness,<br>That so calmly cover'd all things round me;<br>I enjoy'd the universal silence,<br>While I listen'd ever in the silence,<br>If perchance the slightest sounds were stirring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Had she only thoughts, my thoughts resembling,<br>Had she only feelings, like my feelings,<br>She would not await the dawn of morning.<br>But, ere this, would surely have been with me.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Skipp'd a kitten on the floor above me,<br>Scratch'd a mouse a panel in the corner,<br>Was there in the house the slightest motion,<br>Ever hoped I that I heard thy footstep,<br>Ever thought I that I heard thee coming.<br>And so lay I long, and ever longer,<br>And already was the daylight dawning,<br>And both here and there were signs of movement.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Is it yon door? Were it my door only!&quot;<br>In my bed I lean'd upon my elbow,<br>Looking tow'rd the door, now half-apparent,<br>If perchance it might not be in motion.<br>Both the wings upon the latch continued,<br>On the quiet hinges calmly hanging.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the day grew bright and brighter ever;<br>And I heard my neighbour's door unbolted,<br>As he went to earn his daily wages,<br>And ere long I heard the waggons rumbling,<br>And the city gates were also open'd,<br>While the market-place, in ev'ry corner,<br>Teem'd with life and bustle and confusion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the house was going now and coming<br>Up and down the stairs, and doors were creaking<br>Backwards now, now forwards,--footsteps clatter'd<br>Yet, as though it were a thing all-living,<br>From my cherish'd hope I could not tear me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When at length the sun, in hated splendour.<br>Fell upon my walls, upon my windows,<br>Up I sprang, and hasten'd to the garden,<br>There to blend my breath, so hot and yearning,<br>With the cool refreshing morning breezes,<br>And, it might be, even there to meet thee:<br>But I cannot find thee in the arbour,<br>Or the avenue of lofty lindens.</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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Tell me what great sin have I committed,
That thou keep'st me to the rack thus fasten'd,
That thou hast thy solemn promise broken?

'Twas but yestere'en that thou with fondness
Press'd my hand, and these sweet a..."></div>
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