<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=550553" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Do Not Ask</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don’t remind the August sky<br>how you used to love July, <br>and even if you should remember<br>August skies when it’s September, <br>don’t brood on them, for they have gone, <br>and you should only dwell upon<br>the skies that you see now above.<br>It’s just the same, of course, with love; <br>what love you may have lost is not<br>what you should think of, hot to trot<br>with someone new who takes your fancy.<br>It’s not a sign of sycophancy<br>to tell her that you’ve never seen<br>a girl more beautiful, or been<br>more happy than you are with her.<br>Forget the past which, de rigueur, <br>is just the past, and don’t see shrouds<br>in skies where there are sometimes clouds.<br>What's past you must forget and bury; <br>look up, ahead and now be merry! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inspired by the lyrics of “Many a New Day, ” quoted in John Steele Gordon’s review of “The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II, ” edited by Amy Asch (“Getting to Know You, Mr. Hammerstein, ” NYT, December 25,2008) : </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many a light lad may kiss and fly, <br>A kiss gone by is bygone.<br>Never’ve I asked an August sky, 'Where has last July gone? '<br>Never’ve I wandered through the rye, wondering where has some<br>guy gone; <br>Many a new day will dawn before I do! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">12/25/08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</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=550553" data-title="Do Not Ask de Gershon Hepner" data-description="Don’t remind the August sky how you used to love July, and even if you should remember August skies when it’s September, don’t brood on them, for they have gone, and you should only dwell upon the skies that you see now above. It’s just..."></div> </div> </div>

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