<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529559" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On an Invitation to the United States.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My ardours for emprize nigh lost <br>Since Life has bared its bones to me, <br>I shrink to seek a modern coast <br>Whose riper times have yet to be; <br>Where the new regions claim them free <br>From that long drip of human tears <br>Which peoples old in tragedy <br>Have left upon the centuried years. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, wonning in these ancient lands, <br>Enchased and lettered as a tomb, <br>And scored with prints of perished hands, <br>And chronicled with dates of doom, <br>Though my own Being bear no bloom <br>I trace the lives such scenes enshrine, <br>Give past exemplars present room, <br>And their experience count as mine.</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=529559" data-title="On an Invitation to the United States. de Thomas Hardy" data-description="My ardours for emprize nigh lost Since Life has bared its bones to me, I shrink to seek a modern coast Whose riper times have yet to be; Where the new regions claim them free From that long drip of human tears Which peoples old in tragedy H..."></div> </div> </div>

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