<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536615" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LVII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ON A LOST OPPORTUNITY<br>We might, if you had willed, have conquered Heaven.<br>Once only in our lives before the gate<br>Of Paradise we stood, one fortunate even,<br>And gazed in sudden rapture through the grate.<br>And, while you stood astonished, I, our fate<br>Venturing, pushed the latch and found it free.<br>There stood the tree of knowledge fair and great<br>Beside the tree of life. One instant we<br>Stood in that happy garden, guardianless.<br>My hands already turned towards the tree<br>And in another moment we had known<br>The taste of joy and immortality<br>And been ourselves as gods. But in distress<br>You thrust me back with supplicating arms<br>And eyes of terror, till the impatient sun<br>Had time to set and till the heavenly host<br>Rushed forth on us with clarions and alarms<br>And cast us out for ever, blind and lost.</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=536615" data-title="The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LVII de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="ON A LOST OPPORTUNITY We might, if you had willed, have conquered Heaven. Once only in our lives before the gate Of Paradise we stood, one fortunate even, And gazed in sudden rapture through the grate. And, while you stood astonished, I, our fate ..."></div> </div> </div>

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