<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535364" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Remonstrance</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was at peace until you came <br>And set a careless mind aflame; <br>I lived in quiet; cold, content; <br>All longing in safe banishment, <br>Until your ghostly lips and eyes <br>Made wisdom unwise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Naught was in me to tempt your feet <br>To seek a lodging. Quite forgot <br>Lay the sweet solitude we two <br>In childhood used to wander through; <br>Time's cold had closed my heart about, <br>And shut you out. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, and what then? . . . O vision grave, <br>Take all the little all I have! <br>Strip me of what in voiceless throught <br>Life's kept of life, unhoped, unsought! -- <br>Reverie and dream that memory must <br>Hide deep in dust! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This only I say: Though cold and bare, <br>The haunted house you have chosen to share, <br>Still 'neath its walls the moonbeam goes <br>And trembles on the untended rose; <br>Still o'er its broken roof-tree rise <br>The starry arches of the skies; <br>And 'neath your lightest word shall be <br>The thunder of an ebbing sea.</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=535364" data-title="The Remonstrance de Walter de la Mare" data-description="I was at peace until you came And set a careless mind aflame; I lived in quiet; cold, content; All longing in safe banishment, Until your ghostly lips and eyes Made wisdom unwise. Naught was in me to tempt your feet To seek a lodging. Quit..."></div> </div> </div>

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