<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535480" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Maid's Lament</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone,<br>I feel I am alone.<br>I check'd him while he spoke; yet, could he speak,<br>Alas! I would not check.<br>For reasons not to love him once I sought,<br>And wearied all my thought<br>To vex myself and him: I now would give<br>My love could he but live<br>Who lately lived for me, and, when he found<br>'Twas vain, in holy ground<br>He hid his face amid the shades of death!<br>I waste for him my breath<br>Who wasted his for me! but mine returns,<br>And this torn bosom burns<br>With stifling heat, heaving it up in sleep,<br>And waking me to weep<br>Tears that had melted his soft heart: for years<br>Wept he as bitter tears!<br>Merciful God! such was his latest prayer,<br>These may she never share.<br>Quieter is his breath, his breast more cold,<br>Than daisies in the mould,<br>Where children spell, athwart the churchyard gate,<br>His name and life's brief date.<br>Pray for him, gentle souls, whoe'er you be,<br>And oh! pray too for me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walter+Savage+Landor">Walter Savage Landor</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=535480" data-title="The Maid's Lament de Walter Savage Landor" data-description="I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone, I feel I am alone. I check'd him while he spoke; yet, could he speak, Alas! I would not check. For reasons not to love him once I sought, And wearied all my thought To vex myself and him: I now would give ..."></div> </div> </div>

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