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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418833" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Visit</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FAIN had I to-day surprised my mistress,<br>But soon found I that her door was fasten'd.<br>Yet I had the key safe in my pocket,<br>And the darling door I open'd softly!<br>In the parlour found I not the maiden,<br>Found the maiden not within her closet,<br>Then her chamber-door I gently open'd,<br>When I found her wrapp'd in pleasing slumbers,<br>Fully dress'd, and lying on the sofa.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While at work had slumber stolen o'er her;<br>For her knitting and her needle found I<br>Resting in her folded bands so tender;<br>And I placed myself beside her softly,<br>And held counsel, whether I should wake her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I looked upon the beauteous quiet<br>That on her sweet eyelids was reposing<br>On her lips was silent truth depicted,<br>On her cheeks had loveliness its dwelling,<br>And the pureness of a heart unsullied<br>In her bosom evermore was heaving.<br>All her limbs were gracefully reclining,<br>Set at rest by sweet and godlike balsam.<br>Gladly sat I, and the contemplation<br>Held the strong desire I felt to wake her<br>Firmer and firmer down, with mystic fetters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Oh, thou love,&quot; methought, &quot;I see that slumber,<br>Slumber that betrayeth each false feature,<br>Cannot injure thee, can nought discover<br>That could serve to harm thy friend's soft feelings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Now thy beauteous eyes are firmly closed,<br>That, when open, form mine only rapture.<br>And thy sweet lips are devoid of motion,<br>Motionless for speaking or for kissing;<br>Loosen'd are the soft and magic fetters<br>Of thine arms, so wont to twine around me,<br>And the hand, the ravishing companion<br>Of thy sweet caresses, lies unmoving.<br>Were my thoughts of thee but based on error,<br>Were the love I bear thee self-deception,<br>I must now have found it out, since Amor<br>Is, without his bandage, placed beside me.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long I sat thus, full of heartfelt pleasure<br>At my love, and at her matchless merit;<br>She had so delighted me while slumbering,<br>That I could not venture to awake her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I on the little table near her<br>Softly placed two oranges, two roses;<br>Gently, gently stole I from her chamber.<br>When her eyes the darling one shall open,<br>She will straightway spy these colourd presents,<br>And the friendly gift will view with wonder,<br>For the door will still remain unopen'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If perchance I see to-night the angel,<br>How will she rejoice,--reward me doubly<br>For this sacrifice of fond affection!</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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But soon found I that her door was fasten'd.
Yet I had the key safe in my pocket,
And the darling door I open'd softly!
In the parlour found I not the maiden,
Found the maiden not within her closet,
Then he..."></div>
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