<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529467" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Catullus: XXXI</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(After passing Sirmione, April 1887.) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sirmio, thou dearest dear of strands <br>That Neptune strokes in lake and sea, <br>With what high joy from stranger lands <br>Doth thy old friend set foot on thee! <br>Yea, barely seems it true to me <br>That no Bithynia holds me now, <br>But calmly and assuringly <br>Around me stretchest homely Thou. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is there a scene more sweet than when <br>Our clinging cares are undercast, <br>And, worn by alien moils and men, <br>The long untrodden sill repassed, <br>We press the pined for couch at last, <br>And find a full repayment there? <br>Then hail, sweet Sirmio; thou that wast, <br>And art, mine own unrivalled Fair!</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=529467" data-title="Catullus: XXXI de Thomas Hardy" data-description="(After passing Sirmione, April 1887.) Sirmio, thou dearest dear of strands That Neptune strokes in lake and sea, With what high joy from stranger lands Doth thy old friend set foot on thee! Yea, barely seems it true to me That no Bithynia h..."></div> </div> </div>

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