<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=542503" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Gift for the Romantic</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Gift for the Romantic <br> <br>It is in the subtlety<br>And not the blunt insult, <br>The threat and not the onslaught; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The implied and not the explicit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is in the first gleaning, <br>remembered scents of Spring<br>And not the direct, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Overhead heat of Summer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The autumnal dread <br>And not the dead of Winter; <br>The sweet dream of sleep </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And not the bleak morning after.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When somewhere between the gift, <br>And it’s crumpled paper wrapping, <br>Lie an infinity </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of finite things to be chosen: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But of a thousand choices <br>if I must choose one, <br>I would settle, instead, </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> For the choice and forego the choosing…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>John Tansey 11.25 07</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Copyright ©2008 John Thomas Tansey<br>&#8195;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Tansey">John Tansey</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=542503" data-title="A Gift for the Romantic de John Tansey" data-description="A Gift for the Romantic It is in the subtlety And not the blunt insult, The threat and not the onslaught; The implied and not the explicit. It is in the first gleaning, remembered scents of Spring And not the direct, Overhead heat of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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