<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421365" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Penance</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My lover died a century ago,<br>Her dear heart stricken by my sland'rous breath,<br>Wherefore the Gods forbade that I should know<br> The peace of death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men pass my grave, and say, &quot;'Twere well to sleep,<br>Like such an one, amid the uncaring dead!&quot;<br>How should they know the vigils that I keep,<br> The tears I shed?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon the grave, I count with lifeless breath,<br>Each night, each year, the flowers that bloom and die,<br>Deeming the leaves, that fall to dreamless death,<br> More blest than I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas just last year -- I heard two lovers pass<br>So near, I caught the tender words he said:<br>To-night the rain-drenched breezes sway the grass<br> Above his head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That night full envious of his life was I,<br>That youth and love should stand at his behest;<br>To-night, I envy him, that he should lie<br> At utter rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+McCrae">John McCrae</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=421365" data-title="Penance de John McCrae" data-description="My lover died a century ago, Her dear heart stricken by my sland'rous breath, Wherefore the Gods forbade that I should know The peace of death. Men pass my grave, and say, &quot;'Twere well to sleep, Like such an one, amid the uncaring dead!&quo..."></div> </div> </div>

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