<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536618" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXIV</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE APPEALS AGAINST HIS BOND<br>In my distress Love made me sign a bond,<br>A cruel bond. 'Twas by necessity<br>Wrung from a foolish heart, alas, too fond,<br>Too blindly fond, its error to foresee.<br>And now my soul's estate, in jeopardy,<br>Lies to a pledge it never can redeem.<br>Love's loan was love, one hour of ecstasy,<br>His penalty eternal loss of him.<br>--See, I am penniless, the forfeit paid,<br>And go a beggar forth from thy dear sight,<br>My pound of more than flesh too strictly weighed<br>And cut too near the heart. Fair Israelite,<br>Thy plea was just. Thy right has been confessed.<br>And yet a work of mercy were twice blessed.</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=536618" data-title="The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXIV de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="HE APPEALS AGAINST HIS BOND In my distress Love made me sign a bond, A cruel bond. 'Twas by necessity Wrung from a foolish heart, alas, too fond, Too blindly fond, its error to foresee. And now my soul's estate, in jeopardy, Lies to a pledge it ne..."></div> </div> </div>

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