<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450610" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>So Long Ago</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'To thee, who lost a love as I, <br>Allow this little book of living song<br>To bring thee solace, and the comfort<br>That is thine, to know thou livist not alone, <br>To bear a burden such as mine.<br>Addie Marketier,1853.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As if it were a live, hot coal<br>That seared my heart, <br>I held this little book of love sonnets<br>That she had held so long ago.<br>I turned the pages she had turned. I touched<br>The teardropp stains on lines of verse<br>That she had underscored, <br>And left the pressed rosebud<br>Where it had lain a century or more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought of what the past had wrought<br>With images of her soul-grief.<br>I seemed to feel her presence, as a being<br>Without shape or form.<br>A disquieting sensation sat upon my heart, <br>That she had lived in solitude<br>Within the shadow of the shatter<br>Of her dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is no separation between the soul<br>And its deep pain, except the grand sweep<br>Of passing time, which does not erase<br>But, only softens sorrow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lynn+W.+Petty">Lynn W. Petty</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=450610" data-title="So Long Ago de Lynn W. Petty" data-description="'To thee, who lost a love as I, Allow this little book of living song To bring thee solace, and the comfort That is thine, to know thou livist not alone, To bear a burden such as mine. Addie Marketier,1853.' As if it were a live, hot coal That ..."></div> </div> </div>

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