<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536393" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: IX</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stopped, I listened, and I entered in,<br>With half--a--dozen more, that sight to see.<br>``The Booth of Beauty,'' 'twas a name of sin<br>Which seemed to promise a new mystery.<br>There was a crowd already in the place,<br>And 'twixt me and the stage, now darkly hid,<br>The gathering evening had come down apace,<br>And all was dim within and overspread.<br>I know not by what instinct or mute proof<br>Of Providence it was, but this is true,<br>Even as I stepped 'neath that ignoble roof,<br>A prescience warned me there of portents new,<br>And a voice spoke with no uncertain sound<br>Warning me back as from ungodly ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</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=536393" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: IX de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="I stopped, I listened, and I entered in, With half--a--dozen more, that sight to see. ``The Booth of Beauty,'' 'twas a name of sin Which seemed to promise a new mystery. There was a crowd already in the place, And 'twixt me and the stage, now dark..."></div> </div> </div>

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