<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569046" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poem #089, Sonnet #41: Fatum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Tis true! Those were the happy times my friend<br>The golden age… and that the treasured glory<br>Ere dauntless Doom decreed th’unduly end<br>And swathed in endless hush the tender story.<br>Ay! True! That was the comfort, now bygone<br>And them sweet elfin days, now but a vision<br>That was the joy before it was undone<br>Ere Fortune smote and markèd out division<br>Those were the tuneful twinklings friend and lo! <br>The music’s now a muffled elegy…<br>Those were the easy moments; long ago<br>Before the bitter blow of Destiny<br>That was mere Heaven friend… but fate required<br>That was the life and now it is expired.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Adelaide<br>October 20th 1991</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samer+Madbak">Samer Madbak</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=569046" data-title="Poem #089, Sonnet #41: Fatum de Samer Madbak" data-description="‘Tis true! Those were the happy times my friend The golden age… and that the treasured glory Ere dauntless Doom decreed th’unduly end And swathed in endless hush the tender story. Ay! True! That was the comfort, now bygone And them sweet elf..."></div> </div> </div>

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