<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115921" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Second Best</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here in the dark, O heart;<br>Alone with the enduring Earth, and Night,<br>And Silence, and the warm strange smell of clover;<br>Clear-visioned, though it break you; far apart<br>From the dead best, the dear and old delight;<br>Throw down your dreams of immortality,<br>O faithful, O foolish lover!<br>Here's peace for you, and surety; here the one<br>Wisdom - the truth! - 'All day the good glad sun<br>Showers love and labour on you, wine and song;<br>The greenwood laughs, the wind blows, all day long<br>Till night.' And night ends all things.<br> Then shall be<br>No lamp relumed in heaven, no voices crying,<br>Or changing lights, or dreams and forms that hover!<br>(And, heart, for all your sighing,<br>That gladness and those tears are over, over. . . .)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And has the truth brought no new hope at all,<br>Heart, that you're weeping yet for Paradise?<br>Do they still whisper, the old weary cries?<br>‘’Mid youth and song, feasting and carnival,<br>Through laughter, through the roses,as of old<br>Comes Death, on shadowy and relentless feet,<br>Death, unappeaseable by prayer or gold;<br>Death is the end, the end!’<br>Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet<br>Death as a friend!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Exile of immortality, strongly wise,<br>Strain through the dark with undesirous eyes<br>To what may lie beyond it. Sets your star,<br>O heart, for ever! Yet, behind the night,<br>Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar,<br>Some white tremendous daybreak. And the light,<br>Returning, shall give back the golden hours,<br>Ocean a windless level, Earth a lawn<br>Spacious and full of sunlit dancing-places,<br>And laughter, and music, and, among the flowers,<br>The gay child-hearts of men, and the child-faces<br>O heart, in the great dawn!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rupert+Brooke">Rupert Brooke</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=115921" data-title="Second Best de Rupert Brooke" data-description="Here in the dark, O heart;/Alone with the enduring Earth, and Night,/And Silence, and the warm strange smell of clover;/Clear-visioned, though it break you; far apart/From the dead best, the dear and old delight;/Throw down your dreams of immortal..."></div> </div> </div>

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