<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472558" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Girdle Of Friendship</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SHE gathered at her slender waist<br>The beauteous robe she wore;<br>Its folds a golden belt embraced,<br>One rose-hued gem it bore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The girdle shrank; its lessening round<br>Still kept the shining gem,<br>But now her flowing locks it bound,<br>A lustrous diadem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And narrower still the circlet grew;<br>Behold! a glittering band,<br>Its roseate diamond set anew,<br>Her neck's white column spanned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Suns rise and set; the straining clasp<br>The shortened links resist,<br>Yet flashes in a bracelet's grasp<br>The diamond, on her wrist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At length, the round of changes past<br>The thieving years could bring,<br>The jewel, glittering to the last,<br>Still sparkles in a ring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, link by link, our friendships part,<br>So loosen, break, and fall,<br>A narrowing zone; the loving heart<br>Lives changeless through them all.</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=472558" data-title="The Girdle Of Friendship de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="SHE gathered at her slender waist The beauteous robe she wore; Its folds a golden belt embraced, One rose-hued gem it bore. The girdle shrank; its lessening round Still kept the shining gem, But now her flowing locks it bound, A lustrous diadem. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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