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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477863" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lover And The Moon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A LOVER whom duty called over the wave,<br>With himself communed: 'Will my love be true<br>If left to herself? Had I better not sue<br>Some friend to watch over her, good and grave?<br>But my friend might fail in my need,' he said,<br>'And I return to find love dead.<br>Since friendships fade like the flow'rs of June,<br>I will leave her in charge of the stable moon.'<br>Then he said to the moon: 'O dear old moon,<br>Who for years and years from thy throne above<br>Hast nurtured and guarded young lovers and love,<br>My heart has but come to its waiting June,<br>And the promise time of the budding vine;<br>Oh, guard thee well this love of mine.'<br>And he harked him then while all was still,<br>And the pale moon answered and said, 'I will.'<br>And he sailed in his ship o'er many seas,<br>And he wandered wide o'er strange far strands:<br>in isles of the south and in Orient lands,<br>Where pestilence lurks in the breath of the breeze.<br>But his star was high, so he braved the main,<br>And sailed him blithely home again;<br>And with joy he bended his footsteps soon<br>To learn of his love from the matron moon.<br>She sat as of yore, in her olden place,<br>Serene as death, in her silver chair.<br>A white rose gleamed in her whiter hair,<br>And the tint of a blush was on her face.<br>At sight of the youth she sadly bowed<br>And hid her face 'neath a gracious cloud.<br>She faltered faint on the night's dim marge,<br>But 'How,' spoke the youth, 'have you kept your charge?'<br>The moon was sad at a trust ill-kept;<br>The blush went out in her blanching cheek, <br>And her voice was timid and low and weak,<br>As she made her plea and sighed and wept.<br>'Oh, another prayed and another plead,<br>And I couldn't resist,' she answering said;<br>'But love still grows in the hearts of men:<br>Go forth, dear youth, and love again.'<br>But he turned him away from her proffered grace.<br>'Thou art false, O moon, as the hearts of men,<br>I will not, will not love again.'<br>And he turned sheer 'round with a soul-sick face<br>To the sea, and cried: 'Sea, curse the moon,<br>Who makes her vows and forgets so soon.'<br>And the awful sea with anger stirred,<br>And his breast heaved hard as he lay and heard.<br>And ever the moon wept down in rain,<br>And ever her sighs rose high in wind;<br>But the earth and sea were deaf and blind,<br>And she wept and sighed her griefs in vain. <br>And ever at night, when the storm is fierce,<br>The cries of a wraith through the thunders pierce;<br>And the waves strain their awful hands on high<br>To tear the false moon from the sky.</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>
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With himself communed: 'Will my love be true
If left to herself? Had I better not sue
Some friend to watch over her, good and grave?
But my friend might fail in my need,' he said,
'And I return to find love ..."></div>
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