<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=442941" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Such Portraits From the Past</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is there a relevance in attempts made...<br>To restore a past, <br>When an innocence was more restricting? <br>And the slow pacing done in those days, <br>Seem to last as long as those gaslights burning.<br>Or the wax that dripped from candlesticks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is difficult to face current times...<br>That seem less romanticized, <br>Than those of cobbled stoned streets.<br>Upon which people mingled, <br>With a sharing of their simple visions.<br>In nights then to seem never ending.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is there a relevance in attempts made...<br>To restore a past, <br>When an innocence was more restricting? <br>And the slow pacing done in those days, <br>Seem to last as long as those gaslights burning.<br>Or the wax that dripped from candlesticks, <br>Thick with wicks homemade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is there a relevance to any of this today? <br>And why some try to glorify such portraits from the past? <br>Didn't many complained about them when they lived back then? <br>But today there seems such a renewed interest.<br>With a wish for those values.<br>And a quality of life reminiscing embellished victories.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</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=442941" data-title="Such Portraits From the Past de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Is there a relevance in attempts made... To restore a past, When an innocence was more restricting? And the slow pacing done in those days, Seem to last as long as those gaslights burning. Or the wax that dripped from candlesticks. It is diffi..."></div> </div> </div>

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