<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536572" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ON READING CERTAIN LETTERS<br>Reading these lines, this record of lost days<br>Where I am not, and yet where love has been,<br>This tale of passions consecrate to men<br>Other than me, unwitting of my ways,<br>I seem to hear some pagan chaunt of praise<br>Hymned to an idol shrine in gardens green,<br>Some wild soft worship of a god obscene,<br>Some idle homage to an idol face.<br>I shut my ears, yet hear it still. My eyes<br>See not, yet see the unchaste the unlawful fire;<br>I scent the odour of the sacrifice,<br>And feel the victim's shriek. Then in my ire<br>I rise up, as on Horeb, and I cry,<br>``There is none other god, but only I!''</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=536572" data-title="The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part I: To Manon: XII de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="ON READING CERTAIN LETTERS Reading these lines, this record of lost days Where I am not, and yet where love has been, This tale of passions consecrate to men Other than me, unwitting of my ways, I seem to hear some pagan chaunt of praise Hymned to..."></div> </div> </div>

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