<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472362" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Album Verses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN Eve had led her lord away,<br>And Cain had killed his brother,<br>The stars and flowers, the poets say,<br>Agreed with one another.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To cheat the cunning tempter's art,<br>And teach the race its duty,<br>By keeping on its wicked heart<br>Their eyes of light and beauty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A million sleepless lids, they say,<br>Will be at least a warning;<br>And so the flowers would watch by day,<br>The stars from eve to morning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On hill and prairie, field and lawn,<br>Their dewy eyes upturning,<br>The flowers still watch from reddening dawn<br>Till western skies are burning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! each hour of daylight tells<br>A tale of shame so crushing,<br>That some turn white as sea-bleached shells,<br>And some are always blushing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when the patient stars look down<br>On all their light discovers,<br>The traitor's smile, the murderer's frown,<br>The lips of lying lovers,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They try to shut their saddening eyes,<br>And in the vain endeavor<br>We see them twinkling in the skies,<br>And so they wink forever.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</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=472362" data-title="Album Verses de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="WHEN Eve had led her lord away, And Cain had killed his brother, The stars and flowers, the poets say, Agreed with one another. To cheat the cunning tempter's art, And teach the race its duty, By keeping on its wicked heart Their eyes of light an..."></div> </div> </div>

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