<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472468" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>La Grisette</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As Clemence! when I saw thee last<br>Trip down the Rue de Seine,<br>And turning, when thy form had past,<br>I said, 'We meet again,'--<br>I dreamed not in that idle glance<br>Thy latest image came,<br>And only left to memory's trance<br>A shadow and a name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The few strange words my lips had taught<br>Thy timid voice to speak,<br>Their gentler signs, which often brought<br>Fresh roses to thy cheek,<br>The trailing of thy long loose hair<br>Bent o'er my couch of pain,<br>All, all returned, more sweet, more fair;<br>Oh, had we met again!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I walked where saint and virgin keep<br>The vigil lights of Heaven,<br>I knew that thou hadst woes to weep,<br>And sins to be forgiven;<br>I watched where Genevieve was laid,<br>I knelt by Mary's shrine,<br>Beside me low, soft voices prayed;<br>Alas! but where was thine?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the morning sun was bright,<br>When wind and wave were calm,<br>And flamed, in thousand-tinted light,<br>The rose of Notre Dame,<br>I wandered through the haunts of men,<br>From Boulevard to Quai,<br>Till, frowning o'er Saint Etienne,<br>The Pantheon's shadow lay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In vain, in vain; we meet no more,<br>Nor dream what fates befall;<br>And long upon the stranger's shore<br>My voice on thee may call,<br>When years have clothed the line in moss<br>That tells thy name and days,<br>And withered, on thy simple cross,<br>The wreaths of Pere-la-Chaise!</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=472468" data-title="La Grisette de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="As Clemence! when I saw thee last Trip down the Rue de Seine, And turning, when thy form had past, I said, 'We meet again,'-- I dreamed not in that idle glance Thy latest image came, And only left to memory's trance A shadow and a name. The few s..."></div> </div> </div>

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