<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536619" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXIX</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SIBYLLINE BOOKS<br>When first, a boy, at your fair knees I kneeled,<br>'Twas with a worthy offering. In my hand<br>My young life's book I held, a volume sealed,<br>Which none but you, I deemed, might understand.<br>And you I did entreat to loose the band<br>And read therein your own soul's destiny.<br>But, Tarquin--like, you turned from my demand,<br>Too proudly fair to find your fate in me.<br>When now I come, alas, what hands have turned<br>Those virgin pages! Some are torn away,<br>And some defaced, and some with passion burned,<br>And some besmeared with life's least holy clay.<br>Say, shall I offer you these pages wet<br>With blood and tears? And will your sorrow read<br>What your joy heeded not?--Unopened yet<br>One page remains. It still may hold a fate,<br>A counsel for the day of utter need.<br>Nay, speak, sad heart, speak quick. The hour is late.<br>Age threatens us. The Gaul is at the gate.</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=536619" data-title="The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXIX de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="SIBYLLINE BOOKS When first, a boy, at your fair knees I kneeled, 'Twas with a worthy offering. In my hand My young life's book I held, a volume sealed, Which none but you, I deemed, might understand. And you I did entreat to loose the band And rea..."></div> </div> </div>

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