<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529555" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Neutral Tones</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WE stood by a pond that winter day,<br> And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,<br> And a few leaves lay on the starving sod,<br> --They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove<br> Over tedious riddles solved years ago;<br> And some words played between us to and fro--<br> On which lost the more by our love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing<br> Alive enough to have strength to die;<br> And a grin of bitterness swept thereby<br> Like an ominous bird a-wing....</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,<br> And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me<br> Your face, and the God-curst sun, and a tree,<br> And a pond edged with grayish leaves.</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=529555" data-title="Neutral Tones de Thomas Hardy" data-description="WE stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod, --They had fallen from an ash, and were gray. Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles solved y..."></div> </div> </div>

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