<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578805" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Usurer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FATE says, and flaunts her stores of gold,<br>'I'll loan you happiness untold.<br>What is it you desire of me?'<br>A perfect hour in which to be<br>In love with life, and glad, and good,<br>The bliss of being understood,<br>Amid life's cares a little space<br>To feast your eyes upon a face,<br>The whispered word, the love-filled tone,<br>The warmth of lips that meet your own,<br>To-day of Fate you borrow;<br>In hunger of the heart, and pain,<br>In loneliness, and longing vain,<br>You pay the debt to-morrow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prince, let grim Fate take what she will<br>Of treasures rare, of joys that thrill,<br>Enact the cruel usurer's part,<br>Leave empty arms and hungry heart,<br>Take what she can of love and trust,<br>Take all life's gladness, if she must,<br>Take meeting smile and parting kiss–<br>The benediction and the bliss.<br>What then? The fairest thing of all<br>Is ours, O Prince, beyond recall–<br>Not even Fate would dare to seize<br>Our store of golden memories.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jean+Blewett">Jean Blewett</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=578805" data-title="The Usurer de Jean Blewett" data-description="FATE says, and flaunts her stores of gold, 'I'll loan you happiness untold. What is it you desire of me?' A perfect hour in which to be In love with life, and glad, and good, The bliss of being understood, Amid life's cares a little space To feast..."></div> </div> </div>

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