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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518855" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Golden Wedding Of Sterling And Sarah Lanier, September 27, 1868.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the Eldest Grandson.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A rainbow span of fifty years,<br>Painted upon a cloud of tears,<br>In blue for hopes and red for fears,<br>Finds end in a golden hour to-day.<br>Ah, YOU to our childhood the legend told,<br>'At the end of the rainbow lies the gold,'<br>And now in our thrilling hearts we hold<br>The gold that never will pass away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gold crushed from the quartz of a crystal life,<br>Gold hammered with blows of human strife,<br>Gold burnt in the love of man and wife,<br>Till it is pure as the very flame:<br>Gold that the miser will not have,<br>Gold that is good beyond the grave,<br>Gold that the patient and the brave<br>Amass, neglecting praise and blame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O golden hour that caps the time<br>Since, heart to heart like rhyme to rhyme,<br>You stood and listened to the chime<br>Of inner bells by spirits rung,<br>That tinkled many a secret sweet<br>Concerning how two souls should meet,<br>And whispered of Time's flying feet<br>With a most piquant silver tongue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O golden day, -- a golden crown<br>For the kingly heads that bowed not down<br>To win a smile or 'scape a frown,<br>Except the smile and frown of Heaven!<br>Dear heads, still dark with raven hair;<br>Dear hearts, still white in spite of care;<br>Dear eyes, still black and bright and fair<br>As any eyes to mortals given!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old parents of a restless race,<br>You miss full many a bonny face<br>That would have smiled a filial grace<br>Around your Golden Wedding wine.<br>But God is good and God is great.<br>His will be done, if soon or late.<br>Your dead stand happy in yon Gate<br>And call you blessed while they shine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, drop the tear and dry the eyes.<br>Your rainbow glitters in the skies.<br>Here's golden wine: young, old, arise:<br>With cups as full as our souls, we say:<br>'Two Hearts, that wrought with smiles through tears<br>This rainbow span of fifty years,<br>Behold how true, true love appears<br>True gold for your Golden Wedding day!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sidney+Lanier">Sidney Lanier</a><div class=q>
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A rainbow span of fifty years,
Painted upon a cloud of tears,
In blue for hopes and red for fears,
Finds end in a golden hour to-day.
Ah, YOU to our childhood the legend told,
'At the end of the rainbow lies the gold,'
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