<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529448" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At A Bridal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN you paced forth, to wait maternity,<br> A dream of other offspring held my mind,<br> Compounded of us twain as Love designed;<br> Rare forms, that corporate now will never be!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Should I, too, wed as slave to Mode's decree,<br> And each thus found apart, of false desire,<br> A stolid line, whom no high aims will fire<br> As had fired ours could ever have mingled we;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And, grieved that lives so matched should miscompose,<br> Each mourn the double waste; and question dare<br> To the Great Dame whence incarnation flows,<br> Why those high-purposed children never were:<br> What will she answer? That she does not care<br> If the race all such sovereign types unknows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Hardy">Thomas Hardy</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=529448" data-title="At A Bridal de Thomas Hardy" data-description="WHEN you paced forth, to wait maternity, A dream of other offspring held my mind, Compounded of us twain as Love designed; Rare forms, that corporate now will never be! Should I, too, wed as slave to Mode's decree, And each thus found apart,..."></div> </div> </div>

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