<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506731" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Retreat.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Against my lonely latter years<br>I'll build a faery home for me —<br>Proof against sorrow with its fears,<br>And age with its adversity.<br>Within a region bosomed high<br>Above the ways of worldly men,<br>In a demesne where by-and-by<br>I oft shall come and go again.<br>Ah! there my home in a green nook<br>Shall sweetly stand the siege of time,<br>Where Thought may read his riddle-book<br>As to the murmur of old rhyme.<br>And faery footings still shall lead<br>My feet among mesmeric ways,<br>Where life is like a dream indeed,<br>And all the days are summer days.<br>But sylphs and fays and simple things<br>Shall murmur in my pensive ear,<br>Until the change shall come that brings<br>Me and my world to ruin here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Crawford">Robert Crawford</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=506731" data-title="The Retreat. de Robert Crawford" data-description="Against my lonely latter years I'll build a faery home for me — Proof against sorrow with its fears, And age with its adversity. Within a region bosomed high Above the ways of worldly men, In a demesne where by-and-by I oft shall come and go aga..."></div> </div> </div>

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