<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538268" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To: W A</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or ever the knightly years were gone<br>With the old world to the grave,<br>I was a King in Babylon<br>And you were a Christian Slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw, I took, I cast you by,<br>I bent and broke your pride.<br>You loved me well, or I heard them lie,<br>But your longing was denied.<br>Surely I knew that by and by<br>You cursed your gods and died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a myriad suns have set and shone<br>Since then upon the grave<br>Decreed by the King in Babylon<br>To her that had been his Slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pride I trampled is now my scathe,<br>For it tramples me again.<br>The old resentment lasts like death,<br>For you love, yet you refrain.<br>I break my heart on your hard unfaith,<br>And I break my heart in vain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet not for an hour do I wish undone<br>The deed beyond the grave,<br>When I was a King in Babylon<br>And you were a Virgin Slave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Ernest+Henley">William Ernest Henley</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=538268" data-title="To: W A de William Ernest Henley" data-description="Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon And you were a Christian Slave. I saw, I took, I cast you by, I bent and broke your pride. You loved me well, or I heard them lie, But your longing was ..."></div> </div> </div>

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