<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116442" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Waterfowl</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whither, 'midst falling dew,<br>While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,<br>Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue<br>Thy solitary way?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vainly the fowler's eye<br>Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,<br>As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,<br>Thy figure floats along.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seek'st thou the plashy brink<br>Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide,<br>Or where the rocking billows rise and sink<br>On the chafed ocean side?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a Power whose care<br>Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,—<br>The desert and illimitable air,—<br>Lone wandering, but not lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All day thy wings have fann'd<br>At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere:<br>Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land,<br>Though the dark night is near.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And soon that toil shall end,<br>Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest,<br>And scream among thy fellows; reed shall bend<br>Soon o'er thy sheltered nest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven<br>Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart<br>Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given,<br>And shall not soon depart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He, who, from zone to zone,<br>Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,<br>In the long way that I must tread alone,<br>Will lead my steps aright.</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> <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=116442" data-title="To A Waterfowl de William Cullen Bryant" data-description="Whither, 'midst falling dew,/While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,/Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue/Thy solitary way?/Vainly the fowler's eye/Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,/As, darkly painted on the cr..."></div> </div> </div>

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