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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116388" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>After a Tempest</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day had been a day of wind and storm;--<br>The wind was laid, the storm was overpast,--<br>And stooping from the zenith, bright and warm<br>Shone the great sun on the wide earth at last.<br>I stood upon the upland slope and cast<br>My eye upon a broad and beauteous scene,<br>Where the vast plain lay girt by mountains vast,<br>And hills o'er hills lifted their heads of green,<br>With pleasant vales scooped out and villages between.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rain-drops glistened on the trees around,<br>Whose shadows on the tall grass were not stirred,<br>Save when a shower of diamonds, to the ground,<br>Was shaken by the flight of startled bird;<br>For birds were warbling round, and bees were heard<br>About the flowers; the cheerful rivulet sung<br>And gossiped, as he hastened ocean-ward;<br>To the gray oak the squirrel, chiding clung,<br>And chirping from the ground the grasshopper upsprung.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And from beneath the leaves that kept them dry<br>Flew many a glittering insect here and there,<br>And darted up and down the butterfly,<br>That seemed a living blossom of the air.<br>The flocks came scattering from the thicket, where<br>The violent rain had pent them; in the way<br>Strolled groups of damsels frolicksome and fair;<br>The farmer swung the scythe or turned the hay,<br>And 'twixt the heavy swaths his children were at play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a scene of peace--and, like a spell,<br>Did that serene and golden sunlight fall<br>Upon the motionless wood that clothed the fell,<br>And precipice upspringing like a wall,<br>And glassy river and white waterfall,<br>And happy living things that trod the bright<br>And beauteous scene; while far beyond them all,<br>On many a lovely valley, out of sight,<br>Was poured from the blue heavens the same soft golden light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I looked, and thought the quiet of the scene<br>An emblem of the peace that yet shall be,<br>When, o'er earth's continents and isles between,<br>The noise of war shall cease from sea to sea,<br>And married nations dwell in harmony;<br>When millions, crouching in the dust to one,<br>No more shall beg their lives on bended knee,<br>Nor the black stake be dressed, nor in the sun<br>The o'erlabored captive toil, and wish his life were done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too long, at clash of arms amid her bowers<br>And pools of blood, the earth has stood aghast,<br>The fair earth, that should only blush with flowers<br>And ruddy fruits; but not for aye can last<br>The storm, and sweet the sunshine when 'tis past.<br>Lo, the clouds roll away--they break--they fly,<br>And, like the glorious light of summer, cast<br>O'er the wide landscape from the embracing sky,<br>On all the peaceful world the smile of heaven shall lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cullen+Bryant">William Cullen Bryant</a><div class=q>
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