<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420412" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Legacy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Friend of my many years!<br>When the great silence falls, at last, on me,<br>Let me not leave, to pain and sadden thee,<br>A memory of tears,<br>But pleasant thoughts alone.<br>Of one who was thy friendship's honored guest<br>And drank the wine of consolation pressed<br>From sorrows of thy own.<br>I leave with thee a sense<br>Of hands upheld and trials rendered less,<br>The unselfish joy which is to helpfulness<br>Its own great recompense.<br>The knowledge that from thine,<br>As from the garments of the Master, stole<br>Calmness and strength, the virtue which makes whole<br>And heals without a sign.<br>Yea more, the assurance strong<br>That love, which fails of perfect utterance here,<br>Lives on to fill the heavenly atmosphere<br>With its immortal song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</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=420412" data-title="A Legacy de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="Friend of my many years! When the great silence falls, at last, on me, Let me not leave, to pain and sadden thee, A memory of tears, But pleasant thoughts alone. Of one who was thy friendship's honored guest And drank the wine of consolation press..."></div> </div> </div>

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