<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477917" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Then And Now</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THEN</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He loved her, and through many years,<br>Had paid his fair devoted court,<br>Until she wearied, and with sneers<br>Turned all his ardent love to sport.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That night within his chamber lone,<br>He long sat writing by his bed<br>A note in which his heart made moan<br>For love; the morning found him dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">NOW</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like him, a man of later day<br>Was jilted by the maid he sought,<br>And from her presence turned away,<br>Consumed by burning, bitter thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He sought his room to write--a curse<br>Like him before and die, I ween.<br>Ah no, he put his woes in verse,<br>And sold them to a magazine.</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=477917" data-title="Then And Now de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="THEN He loved her, and through many years, Had paid his fair devoted court, Until she wearied, and with sneers Turned all his ardent love to sport. That night within his chamber lone, He long sat writing by his bed A note in which his heart made..."></div> </div> </div>

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