<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115117" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Aspiration. Sonnet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE planted seed consigned to common earth,<br> Disdains to moulder with the baser clay;<br> But rises up to meet the light of day,<br> Spreads all its leaves, and flowers, and tendrils forth;<br> And, bathed and ripened in the genial ray,<br> Pours out its perfume on the wandering gales,<br> Till in that fragrant breath its life exhales.<br> So this immortal germ within my breast<br> Would strive to pierce the dull, dark clod of sense,<br> With aspirations wingéd and intense;<br> Would so stretch upward, in its tireless quest,<br> To meet the Central Soul, its source, its rest;<br> So in the fragrance of the immortal flower,<br> High thoughts and noble deeds, its life it would outpour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><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=115117" data-title="Aspiration. Sonnet de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="THE planted seed consigned to common earth,/ Disdains to moulder with the baser clay;/ But rises up to meet the light of day,/ Spreads all its leaves, and flowers, and tendrils forth;/ And, bathed and ripened in the genial ray,/ Pours out its p..."></div> </div> </div>

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