<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538554" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At Oxford</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bereave me not of Fancy's shadowy dreams,<br>Which won my heart, or when the gay career<br>Of life begun, or when at times a tear<br>Sat sad on memory's cheek--though loftier themes<br>Await the awakened mind to the high prize<br>Of wisdom, hardly earned with toil and pain,<br>Aspiring patient; yet on life's wide plain<br>Left fatherless, where many a wanderer sighs<br>Hourly, and oft our road is lone and long,<br>'Twere not a crime should we a while delay<br>Amid the sunny field; and happier they<br>Who, as they journey, woo the charm of song,<br>To cheer their way;--till they forget to weep,<br>And the tired sense is hushed, and sinks to sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Lisle+Bowles">William Lisle Bowles</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=538554" data-title="At Oxford de William Lisle Bowles" data-description="Bereave me not of Fancy's shadowy dreams, Which won my heart, or when the gay career Of life begun, or when at times a tear Sat sad on memory's cheek--though loftier themes Await the awakened mind to the high prize Of wisdom, hardly earned with to..."></div> </div> </div>

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