<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477606" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Old Memory</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How sweet the music sounded<br>That summer long ago,<br>When you were by my side, love,<br>To list its gentle flow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw your eyes a-shining,<br>I felt your rippling hair,<br>I kissed your pearly cheek, love,<br>And had no thought of care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And gay or sad the music,<br>With subtle charm replete;<br>I found in after years, love<br>'Twas you that made it sweet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For standing where we heard it,<br>I hear again the strain;<br>It wakes my heart, but thrills it<br>With sad, mysterious pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It pulses not so joyous<br>As when you stood with me,<br>And hand in hand we listened<br>To that low melody.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, could the years turn back, love!<br>Oh, could events be changed<br>To what they were that time, love,<br>Before we were estranged;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wert thou once more a maiden<br>Whose smile was gold to me;<br>Were I once more the lover<br>Whose word was life to thee,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O God! could all be altered,<br>The pain, the grief, the strife,<br>And wert thou--as thou shouldst be--<br>My true and loyal wife!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But all my tears are idle,<br>And all my wishes vain.<br>What once you were to me, love,<br>You may not be again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I, alas! like others,<br>Have missed my dearest aim.<br>I asked for love. Oh, mockery!<br>Fate comes to me with fame!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477606" data-title="An Old Memory de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="How sweet the music sounded That summer long ago, When you were by my side, love, To list its gentle flow. I saw your eyes a-shining, I felt your rippling hair, I kissed your pearly cheek, love, And had no thought of care. And gay or sad the mus..."></div> </div> </div>

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