<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519131" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Statues And The Tear</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All night a fountain pleads,<br>Telling her beads,<br>Her tinkling beads monotonous 'neath the moon;<br>And where she springs atween,<br>Two statues lean--<br>Two Kings, their marble beards with moonlight strewn.<br>Till hate had frozen speech,<br>Each hated each,<br>Hated and died, and went unto his place:<br>And still inveterate<br>They lean and hate<br>With glare of stone implacable, face to face.<br>One, who bade set them here<br>In stone austere,<br>To both was dear, and did not guess at all:<br>Yet with her new-wed lord<br>Walking the sward<br>Paused, and for two dead friends a tear let all. <br>She turn'd and went her way.<br>Yet in the spray<br>The shining tear attempts, but cannot lie.<br>Night-long the fountain drips,<br>But even slips<br>Untold that one bead of her rosary:<br>While they, who know it would<br>Lie if it could,<br>Lean on and hate, watching it, eye to eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Arthur+Quiller-Couch">Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch</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=519131" data-title="The Statues And The Tear de Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch" data-description="All night a fountain pleads, Telling her beads, Her tinkling beads monotonous 'neath the moon; And where she springs atween, Two statues lean-- Two Kings, their marble beards with moonlight strewn. Till hate had frozen speech, Each hated each, Hat..."></div> </div> </div>

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