<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420915" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Trance of Time</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas,<br>Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum<br>Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">IN childhood, when with eager eyes <br>The season-measured year I view'd, <br>All garb'd in fairy guise, <br>Pledged constancy of good. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spring sang of heaven; the summer flowers <br>Bade me gaze on, and did not fade; <br>Even suns o'er autumn's bowers <br>Heard my strong wish, and stay'd. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They came and went, the short-lived four; <br>Yet, as their varying dance they wove, <br>To my young heart each bore <br>Its own sure claim of love. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far different now;—the whirling year <br>Vainly my dizzy eyes pursue; <br>And its fair tints appear <br>All blent in one dusk hue. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why dwell on rich autumnal lights, <br>Spring-time, or winter's social ring? <br>Long days are fire-side nights, <br>Brown autumn is fresh spring. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then what this world to thee, my heart? <br>Its gifts nor feed thee nor can bless. <br>Thou hast no owner's part <br>In all its fleetingness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The flame, the storm, the quaking ground, <br>Earth's joy, earth's terror, nought is thine, <br>Thou must but hear the sound <br>Of the still voice divine. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O priceless art! O princely state! <br>E'en while by sense of change opprest, <br>Within to antedate <br>Heaven's Age of fearless rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Henry+Newman">John Henry Newman</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=420915" data-title="The Trance of Time de John Henry Newman" data-description="'Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari!' IN childhood, when with eager eyes The season-measured year I view'd, All garb'd in fairy guise, Pledged con..."></div> </div> </div>

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