<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=553580" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From Life's Cold Tenderness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">From life’s cold tenderness<br>I shall be refreshed<br>From the shut-out hence of a heart at rest<br>That live to contentment<br>Love is mine<br>Close, close in arms<br> A song to any stranger that may come.<br>In me the battle for love is won<br>The unfading eye of April’s face<br>Is stranded by an uncertain grace<br>The spirit that dies for want of love<br>Is bold in the love that rise above<br>Safe on the lofty design of heaven<br>As it drunk on wine it whisper never<br>The drunkenness of once done as wind with its motion never stayed<br>to blow too much never afraid.<br>Out the breath of a joy of lust<br>It stays its rough wild among<br>The playing of celestial fires that trust<br>Like keys of some great belonging wired if it would<br>To the north wind chilled wintry familiar could.<br>I hear the wind and I listen dear<br>It’s a warm wind in the chamber of my ear<br>Where the spirit of the wind dead as a stone<br>Motionless on the frozen ground</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+E.+Patton">David E. Patton</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=553580" data-title="From Life's Cold Tenderness de David E. Patton" data-description="From life’s cold tenderness I shall be refreshed From the shut-out hence of a heart at rest That live to contentment Love is mine Close, close in arms A song to any stranger that may come. In me the battle for love is won The unfading eye of Ap..."></div> </div> </div>

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