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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506382" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Last Ride Together, The</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said---Then, dearest, since 'tis so,<br>Since now at length my fate I know,<br>Since nothing all my love avails,<br>Since all, my life seemed meant for, fails,<br> Since this was written and needs must be---<br>My whole heart rises up to bless<br>Your name in pride and thankfulness!<br>Take back the hope you gave,---I claim<br>---Only a memory of the same,<br>---And this beside, if you will not blame,<br> Your leave for one more last ride with me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My mistress bent that brow of hers;<br>Those deep dark eyes where pride demurs<br>When pity would be softening through,<br>Fixed me, a breathing-while or two,<br> With life or death in the balance: right!<br>The blood replenished me again;<br>My last thought was at least not vain:<br>I and my mistress, side by side<br>Shall be together, breathe and ride,<br>So, one day more am I deified.<br> Who knows but the world may end tonight?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hush! if you saw some western cloud<br>All billowy-bosomed, over-bowed<br>By many benedictions---sun's<br>And moon's and evening-star's at once---<br> And so, you, looking and loving best,<br>Conscious grew, your passion drew<br>Cloud, sunset, moonrise, star-shine too,<br>Down on you, near and yet more near,<br>Till flesh must fade for heaven was here!---<br>Thus leant she and lingered---joy and fear!<br> Thus lay she a moment on my breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then we began to ride. My soul<br>Smoothed itself out, a long-cramped scroll<br>Freshening and fluttering in the wind.<br>Past hopes already lay behind.<br> What need to strive with a life awry?<br>Had I said that, had I done this,<br>So might I gain, so might I miss.<br>Might she have loved me? just as well<br>She might have hated, who can tell!<br>Where had I been now if the worst befell?<br> And here we are riding, she and I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	V.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fail I alone, in words and deeds?<br>Why, all men strive and who succeeds?<br>We rode; it seemed my spirit flew,<br>Saw other regions, cities new,<br> As the world rushed by on either side. <br>I thought,---All labour, yet no less<br>Bear up beneath their unsuccess.<br>Look at the end of work, contrast<br>The petty done, the undone vast,<br>This present of theirs with the hopeful past!<br> I hoped she would love me; here we ride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	VI.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What hand and brain went ever paired?<br>What heart alike conceived and dared?<br>What act proved all its thought had been?<br>What will but felt the fleshly screen?<br> We ride and I see her bosom heave. <br>There's many a crown for who can reach,<br>Ten lines, a statesman's life in each!<br>The flag stuck on a heap of bones,<br>A soldier's doing! what atones?<br>They scratch his name on the Abbey-stones.<br> My riding is better, by their leave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	VII.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What does it all mean, poet? Well,<br>Your brains beat into rhythm, you tell<br>What we felt only; you expressed<br>You hold things beautiful the best,<br> And pace them in rhyme so, side by side.<br>'Tis something, nay 'tis much: but then,<br>Have you yourself what's best for men?<br>Are you---poor, sick, old ere your time---<br>Nearer one whit your own sublime<br>Than we who never have turned a rhyme?<br> Sing, riding's a joy! For me, I ride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	VIII.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you, great sculptor---so, you gave<br>A score of years to Art, her slave,<br>And that's your Venus, whence we turn<br>To yonder girl that fords the burn!<br> You acquiesce, and shall I repine?<br>What, man of music, you grown grey<br>With notes and nothing else to say,<br>Is this your sole praise from a friend,<br>``Greatly his opera's strains intend,<br>``Put in music we know how fashions end!''<br> I gave my youth; but we ride, in fine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	IX.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who knows what's fit for us? Had fate<br>Proposed bliss here should sublimate<br>My being---had I signed the bond---<br>Still one must lead some life beyond,<br> Have a bliss to die with, dim-descried. <br>This foot once planted on the goal,<br>This glory-garland round my soul,<br>Could I descry such? Try and test!<br>I sink back shuddering from the quest. <br>Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?<br> Now, heaven and she are beyond this ride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	X.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet---she has not spoke so long!<br>What if heaven be that, fair and strong<br>At life's best, with our eyes upturned<br>Whither life's flower is first discerned,<br> We, fixed so, ever should so abide?<br>What if we still ride on, we two<br>With life for ever old yet new,<br>Changed not in kind but in degree,<br>The instant made eternity,---<br>And heaven just prove that I and she<br> Ride, ride together, for ever ride?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Browning">Robert Browning</a><div class=q>
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I said---Then, dearest, since 'tis so,
Since now at length my fate I know,
Since nothing all my love avails,
Since all, my life seemed meant for, fails,
 Since this was written and needs must be---
My whole heart rises up to bless
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