<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540008" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Know an Old Man Constrained to Dwell</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know an aged Man constrained to dwell <br>In a large house of public charity, <br>Where he abides, as in a Prisoner's cell, <br>With numbers near, alas! no company. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he could creep about, at will, though poor <br>And forced to live on alms, this old Man fed <br>A Redbreast, one that to his cottage door <br>Came not, but in a lane partook his bread. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There, at the root of one particular tree, <br>An easy seat this worn-out Labourer found <br>While Robin pecked the crumbs upon his knee <br>Laid one by one, or scattered on the ground. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear intercourse was theirs, day after day; <br>What signs of mutual gladness when they met! <br>Think of their common peace, their simple play, <br>The parting moment and its fond regret. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Months passed in love that failed not to fulfil, <br>In spite of season's change, its own demand, <br>By fluttering pinions here and busy bill; <br>There by caresses from a tremulous hand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus in the chosen spot a tie so strong <br>Was formed between the solitary pair, <br>That when his fate had housed him 'mid a throng <br>The Captive shunned all converse proffered there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wife, children, kindred, they were dead and gone; <br>But, if no evil hap his wishes crossed, <br>One living Stay was left, and on that one <br>Some recompence for all that he had lost. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh that the good old Man had power to prove, <br>By message sent through air or visible token, <br>That still he loves the Bird, and still must love; <br>That friendship lasts though fellowship is broken!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</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=540008" data-title="I Know an Old Man Constrained to Dwell de William Wordsworth" data-description="I know an aged Man constrained to dwell In a large house of public charity, Where he abides, as in a Prisoner's cell, With numbers near, alas! no company. When he could creep about, at will, though poor And forced to live on alms, this old M..."></div> </div> </div>

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