<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589864" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Things of the past [Din trecut]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, when has gone our love sincere<br>Come to the graveyard with me, dear, <br>Where are entombed under the grass,<br>And by oblivion concealed<br>So many frozen dreams, alas!<br>Time and aloofness are their shield.<br>Get rid of your regrets and shame:<br>No one can put on us the blame. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So many crosses are around!...<br>Our first kiss lies here in the ground:<br>The moon was watching from on high <br>How we were crossing love's frontiers<br>And it was shining in the sky,<br>While happiness made us shed tears,<br>Which slowly trickled on our face;<br>We sipped them all in hot embrace. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Elsewhere a longing – dead and dried:<br>Two kids were eager, side by side, <br>To walk together on the ways<br>Of their short lives, with visions bright,<br>Aiming to merge two shining rays<br>And make a single beam of light. <br>We were those kids – and it is true<br>They had a wish!...But me and you?...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And farther, where's the deepest grave,<br>Is our first vow, the word we gave, <br>You're in my arms, I hold you near<br>And kiss you gently from above,<br>While in the silence we can hear<br>The whispers of our hearts in love...<br>O, sweet affection led astray,<br>Who makes you feel the thrill today!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And not too far, in silence deep, <br>Fallen in everlasting sleep,<br>Lie our first long and heartfelt sigh,<br>Our last farewell, our heads inclined, <br>The tears that filled your dreary eye,<br>Which will be always in my mind,<br>Like all the dreams that were, you see,<br>Crushed by that painful “let me be”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today, when we are still apart,<br>When cold has settled in our heart,<br>We seemingly are still aloof,<br>Look at each other with eyes blind;<br>Because we feel a sad reproof,<br>Which lingers daily in our mind,<br>For we, unwillingly, still crave <br>The past that's buried in the grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alexandru+Vlahu%C5%A3%C4%83">Alexandru Vlahuţă</a>, translated by Octavian Cocoş<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=589864" data-title="Things of the past [Din trecut] de Alexandru Vlahuţă" data-description="Now, when has gone our love sincere/Come to the graveyard with me, dear, /Where are entombed under the grass,/And by oblivion concealed/So many frozen dreams, alas!/Time and aloofness are their shield./Get rid of your regrets and shame:/No one can..."></div> </div> </div>

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