<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535362" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Men</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old and alone, sit we,<br>Caged, riddle-rid men;<br>Lost to earth's 'Listen!' and 'See!'<br>Thought's 'Wherefore?' and 'When?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only far memories stray<br>Of a past once lovely, but now<br>Wasted and faded away,<br>Like green leaves from the bough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vast broods the silence of night,<br>The ruinous moon<br>Lifts on our faces her light,<br>Whence all dreaming is gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We speak not; trembles each head;<br>In their sockets our eyes are still;<br>Desire as cold as the dead;<br>Without wonder or will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And One, with a lanthorn, draws near,<br>At clash with the moon in our eyes:<br>'Where art thou?' he asks: 'I am here,'<br>One by one we arise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And none lifts a hand to withhold<br>A friend from the touch of that foe:<br>Heart cries unto heart, 'Thou art old!'<br>Yet reluctant, we go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walter+de+la+Mare">Walter de la Mare</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=535362" data-title="The Old Men de Walter de la Mare" data-description="Old and alone, sit we, Caged, riddle-rid men; Lost to earth's 'Listen!' and 'See!' Thought's 'Wherefore?' and 'When?' Only far memories stray Of a past once lovely, but now Wasted and faded away, Like green leaves from the bough. Vast broods the..."></div> </div> </div>

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