<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534029" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Paternal Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[LE ROI S'AMUSE, Act II]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>My child! oh, only blessing Heaven allows me!<br>Others have parents, brothers, kinsmen, friends,<br>A wife, a husband, vassals, followers,<br>Ancestors, and allies, or many children.<br>I have but thee, thee only. Some are rich;<br>Thou art my treasure, thou art all my riches.<br>And some believe in angels; I believe<br>In nothing but thy soul. Others have youth,<br>And woman's love, and pride, and grace, and health;<br>Others are beautiful; thou art my beauty,<br>Thou art my home, my country and my kin,<br>My wife, my mother, sister, friend--my child!<br>My bliss, my wealth, my worship, and my law,<br>My Universe! Oh, by all other things<br>My soul is tortured. If I should ever lose thee--<br>Horrible thought! I cannot utter it.<br>Smile, for thy smile is like thy mother's smiling.<br>She, too, was fair; you have a trick like her,<br>Of passing oft your hand athwart your brow<br>As though to clear it. Innocence still loves<br>A brow unclouded and an azure eye.<br>To me thou seem'st clothed in a holy halo,<br>My soul beholds thy soul through thy fair body;<br>E'en when my eyes are shut, I see thee still;<br>Thou art my daylight, and sometimes I wish<br>That Heaven had made me blind that thou might'st be<br>The sun that lighted up the world for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+Hugo">Victor Hugo</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=534029" data-title="Paternal Love de Victor Hugo" data-description="[LE ROI S'AMUSE, Act II] My child! oh, only blessing Heaven allows me! Others have parents, brothers, kinsmen, friends, A wife, a husband, vassals, followers, Ancestors, and allies, or many children. I have but thee, thee only. Some are rich; Th..."></div> </div> </div>

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