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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=533747" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lethe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the noiseless doors of Death<br>Three passed out, as with one breath. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two had faces stern as Fate,<br>Stamped with unrelenting hate. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One upon her lips of guile<br>Wore a cold, mysterious smile. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each of each unseen, the pale<br>Shades went down the hollow vale </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till they came unto the deep<br>River of Eternal Sleep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Breath of wind, or wing of bird,<br>Never that dark stream hath stirred; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still it seems as is the shore,<br>But it flows for evermore </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Softly, through the meadows wan<br>To the Sea Oblivion. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the dusk, like drops of blood,<br>Poppies hang above the flood; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On its surface lies a thin,<br>Ghostly web of mist, wherein </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All things vague and changing seem<br>As the faces in a dream. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two knelt down upon the bank<br>And of that dark water drank. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the Third stood by the while,<br>Smiling her mysterious smile. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rising up, those shades of men<br>Gazed upon each other, then </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Side by side, upon the bank,<br>In a bed of poppies sank. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“What,” one to the other saith,<br>“Sent thee through the doors of death?”— </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“While life throbbed in every vein,<br>For a woman I was slain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Love is but a fleeting spell,<br>Hate alone remembers well. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“For my slayer I shall wait,<br>And though he at Heaven’s gate </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Stand, and wear an angel’s crown,<br>I shall seize and drag him down!” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the stern shade made reply.<br>Then the first that spake said: “I </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“For a woman’s sake, also,<br>Slew myself—and slew my foe. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Slew myself, that in no shape<br>He my vengeance should escape, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Till Oblivion swallow both:<br>And I swore a solemn oath </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“I would—hate remembers well—<br>Hunt his spotted soul to hell. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“But I left, ere leave-taking,<br>Round her throat a dark red ring. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“I shall know her—you shall note—<br>By that red ring round her throat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Well I loved my fair, false wife,<br>And perchance in this new life </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“She may love me—we shall see—<br>She shall choose ’twixt him and me.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Softly did the other sigh:<br>“My love’s love will never die. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Love is not a fleeting spell—<br>Love, like hate, remembers well. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Soon—mayhap on this dim shore—<br>We shall meet to part no more.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the first Shade spoke and said:<br>“In this Kingdom of the Dead </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Let us, who so strangely meet,<br>Pledge each other in this sweet </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Water, our revenge to wreak<br>Side by side, and so to seek, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Side by side, whate’er our fate,<br>Those we love and those we hate.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kneeling on the dim shore then,<br>Side by side, they drank again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they saw, like drops of blood,<br>Poppies nodding o’er the flood, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they gazed upon the thin<br>Ghostly web of mist, wherein </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All things vague and changing seem<br>As the faces in a dream; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And by some enchantment weird,<br>As they gazed thereon appeared </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unto each, down-bending low,<br>Form and features of his foe, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a moment, then were gone,<br>And upon the meadows wan— </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Half in Death and half a-swoon—<br>Shone a pale and spectral moon. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then these twain rose, drowsy-eyed,<br>And departed side by side. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the Woman Shade the while<br>Smiled her cold, mysterious smile. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And her beauty made a light<br>In that realm of pallid night </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Beauty laughs at worm and grave)<br>Like the moon beneath the wave. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Back she flung her hair of gold,<br>Glowing, gleaming, fold on fold, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Showing—all but these might note—<br>The red ring around her throat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But they passed with cold surprise,<br>And unrecognising eyes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lightly laughed she then, and said:<br>“In this Kingdom of the Dead </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Strange the sights that one may see!<br>There go twain who died for me </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Seeking, through Creation wide,<br>For each other—side by side!” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then she wove a poppy crown,<br>Placed it on her head, and down </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the river’s margin sank<br>Midst the poppies of its bank, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Saying: “In the world above<br>Long he tarries, my true love. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Here beside this river’s rim<br>I will sleep, and wait for him.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+James+Daley">Victor James Daley</a><div class=q>
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Three passed out, as with one breath. 

Two had faces stern as Fate,
Stamped with unrelenting hate. 

One upon her lips of guile
Wore a cold, mysterious smile. 

Each of each unseen, the pale
Shades went down t..."></div>
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