<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529894" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballad Of Human Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN we were girl and boy together, <br> We toss’d about the flowers <br> And wreath’d the blushing hours <br>Into a posy green and sweet. <br> I sought the youngest, best, <br> And never was at rest <br>Till I had laid them at thy fairy feet. <br>But the days of childhood they were fleet, <br> And the blooming sweet-briar-breath’d weather, <br> When we were boy and girl together.<br> <br>Then we were lad and lass together, <br> And sought the kiss of night <br> Before we felt aright, <br>Sitting and singing soft and sweet. <br> The dearest thought of heart <br> With thee ’t was joy to part, <br>And the greater half was thine, as meet. <br>Still my eyelid’s dewy, my veins they beat <br> At the starry summer-evening weather, <br> When we were lad and lass together.<br> <br>And we are man and wife together, <br> Although thy breast, once bold <br> With song, be clos’d and cold <br>Beneath flowers’ roots and birds’ light feet. <br> Yet sit I by thy tomb,<br> And dissipate the gloom <br>With songs of loving faith and sorrow sweet. <br>And fate and darkling grave kind dreams do cheat, <br> That, while fair life, young hope, despair and death are, <br> We ’re boy and girl, and lass and lad, and man and wife together.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Lovell+Beddoes">Thomas Lovell Beddoes</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=529894" data-title="Ballad Of Human Life de Thomas Lovell Beddoes" data-description="WHEN we were girl and boy together, We toss’d about the flowers And wreath’d the blushing hours Into a posy green and sweet. I sought the youngest, best, And never was at rest Till I had laid them at thy fairy feet. But the days of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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