<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477849" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The End Of The Chapter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, yes, the chapter ends to-day;<br>We even lay the book away;<br>But oh, how sweet the moments sped<br>Before the final page was read!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We tried to read between the lines<br>The Author's deep-concealed designs;<br>But scant reward such search secures;<br>You saw my heart and I saw yours.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Master,--He who penned the page<br>And bade us read it,--He is sage:<br>And what he orders, you and I<br>Can but obey, nor question why.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We read together and forgot<br>The world about us. Time was not.<br>Unheeded and unfelt, it fled.<br>We read and hardly knew we read.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Until beneath a sadder sun,<br>We came to know the book was done.<br>Then, as our minds were but new lit,<br>It dawned upon us what was writ;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we were startled. In our eyes,<br>Looked forth the light of great surprise.<br>Then as a deep-toned tocsin tolls,<br>A voice spoke forth: 'Behold your souls!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do, I do. I cannot look<br>Into your eyes: so close the book.<br>But brought it grief or brought it bliss,<br>No other page shall read like this!</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=477849" data-title="The End Of The Chapter de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="Ah, yes, the chapter ends to-day; We even lay the book away; But oh, how sweet the moments sped Before the final page was read! We tried to read between the lines The Author's deep-concealed designs; But scant reward such search secures; You saw ..."></div> </div> </div>

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