<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511171" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Unknown Goddess</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Will you conquer my heart with your beauty; my sould going out from afar?<br>Shall I fall to your hand as a victim of crafty and cautions shikar?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have I met you and passed you already, unknowing, unthinking and blind?<br>Shall I meet you next session at Simla, O sweetest and best of your kind?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Does the P. and O. bear you to meward, or, clad in short frocks in the West,<br>Are you growing the charms that shall capture and torture the heart in my breast?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Will you stay in the Plains till September -- my passion as warm as the day?<br>Will you bring me to book on the Mountains, or where the thermantidotes play?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the light of your eyes shall make pallid the mean lesser lights I pursue,<br>And the charm of your presence shall lure me from love of the gay &quot;thirteen-two&quot;;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the peg and the pig-skin shall please not; when I buy me Calcutta-build clothes;<br>When I quit the Delight of Wild Asses; foreswearing the swearing of oaths ;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a deer to the hand of the hunter when I turn 'mid the gibes of my friends;<br>When the days of my freedom are numbered, and the life of the bachelor ends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, Goddess! child, spinster, or widow -- as of old on Mars Hill whey they raised<br>To the God that they knew not an altar -- so I, a young Pagan, have praised</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Goddess I know not nor worship; yet, if half that men tell me be true,<br>You will come in the future, and therefore these verses are written to you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=511171" data-title="To the Unknown Goddess de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Will you conquer my heart with your beauty; my sould going out from afar? Shall I fall to your hand as a victim of crafty and cautions shikar? Have I met you and passed you already, unknowing, unthinking and blind? Shall I meet you next session a..."></div> </div> </div>

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