Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24793042-20150330211642/@comment-24793042-20150401211856

(*Closes Tab of famous Poems*)

"I usually write poems of Love and Sadness, seeing as the two are very close to each other."

He hands her a scroll that reads:

'Lay Your Sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm: Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral: But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful.

Soul and body have no bounds: To lovers as they lie upon Her tolerant enchanted slope In their ordinary swoon, Grave the vision Venus sends Of supernatural sympathy, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Universal love and hope; <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">While an abstract insight wakes <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Among the glaciers and the rocks <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">The hermit's carnal ecstasy,

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Certainty, fidelity <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">On the stroke of midnight pass <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Like vibrations of a bell <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">And fashionable madmen raise <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Their pedantic boring cry: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Every farthing of the cost. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">All the dreaded cards foretell. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Shall be paid, but from this night <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Not a whisper, not a thought. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Not a kiss nor look be lost.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Beauty, midnight, vision dies: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Let the winds of dawn that blow <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Softly round your dreaming head <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Such a day of welcome show <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Eye and knocking heart may bless, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Find our mortal world enough; <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Noons of dryness find you fed <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">By the involuntary powers, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Nights of insult let you pass <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Watched by every human love. '

(-Lullaby, by W.H. Auden)