<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537500" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Secret</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SHE passes in her beauty bright <br> Amongst the mean, amongst the gay, <br>And all are brighter for the sight, <br> And bless her as she goes her way. <br> <br>And now a gleam of pity pours, <br> And now a spark of spirit flies, <br>Uncounted, from the unlock’d stores <br> Of her rich lips and precious eyes. <br> <br>And all men look, and all men smile, <br> But no man looks on her as I: <br>They mark her for a little while, <br> But I will watch her till I die. <br> <br>And if I wonder now and then <br> Why this so strange a thing should be— <br>That she be seen by wiser men <br> And only duly lov’d by me: <br> <br>I only wait a little longer, <br> And watch her radiance in the room; <br>Here making light a little stronger, <br> And there obliterating gloom, <br> <br>(Like one who, in a tangled way, <br> Watches the broken sun fall through, <br>Turning to gold the faded spray, <br> And making diamonds of dew). <br> <br>Until at last, as my heart burns, <br> She gathers all her scatter’d light, <br>And undivided radiance turns <br> Upon me like a sea of light. <br> <br>And then I know they see in part <br> That which God lets me worship whole: <br>He gives them glances of her heart, <br> But me, the sunshine of her soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cosmo+Monkhouse">William Cosmo Monkhouse</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=537500" data-title="The Secret de William Cosmo Monkhouse" data-description="SHE passes in her beauty bright Amongst the mean, amongst the gay, And all are brighter for the sight, And bless her as she goes her way. And now a gleam of pity pours, And now a spark of spirit flies, Uncounted, from the unlock’d sto..."></div> </div> </div>

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