<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529969" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Wish I Was By That Dim Lake</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wish I was by that dim Lake,<br>Where sinful souls their farewell take <br>Of this vain world, and half-way lie <br>In death's cold shadow, ere they die. <br>There, there, far from thee, <br>Deceitful world, my home should be; <br>Where, come what might of gloom and pain, <br>False hope should n'er deceive again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lifeless sky, the mournful sound <br>Of unseen waters falling round; <br>The dry leaves, quivering o'er my head, <br>Like man, unquiet even when dead! <br>These, ay, these shall wean <br>My soul from life's deluding scene, <br>And turn each thought, o'ercharged with gloom <br>Like willows, downward towards the tomb. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As they, who to their couch at night <br>Would win repose, first quench the light, <br>So must the hopes, that keep this breast <br>Awake, be quench'd, ere it can rest. <br>Cold, cold, this heart must grow, <br>Unmmoved by either joy or woe, <br>Like freezing founts, where all that's thrown <br>Within their current turns to stone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Moore">Thomas Moore</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=529969" data-title="I Wish I Was By That Dim Lake de Thomas Moore" data-description="I wish I was by that dim Lake, Where sinful souls their farewell take Of this vain world, and half-way lie In death's cold shadow, ere they die. There, there, far from thee, Deceitful world, my home should be; Where, come what might of gloom ..."></div> </div> </div>

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