<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116591" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the Dark</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The moon has but one side of light and beauty,<br>The other, steeped in never-ending night,<br>Seems worse than dead, as in the harmony<br>Of spheres, she cannot even echo. And<br>She died they say, for love of her great brother,<br>The glorious Sun, whom she may never reach,<br>Condemned to be apart, for that great sin<br>Of love. He was the light and life and joy<br>Of all her world, how could she then refrain<br>And love not, when her brother was a god?<br>But then she died, you see, and was forgiven.<br>Wherefore is Earth so dark and yet alive?<br>Wherefore doth fire still melt the gold in depths<br>So fathomless, that not a spark may light<br>The poor outside? She wanders through the worlds,<br>Unknown, without a ray, and yet alive<br>With foaming waters and with words as proud<br>As flowing hair. Why art thou dark, O Earth?<br>If thou wert sinless, would not dancing rays<br>Laugh through the night and gladden other planets?<br>Would not thy bosom's warmth give life again<br>To yonder ghost, thy mate in misery?<br>What hast thou done to be condemned to darkness,<br>To be a living hell, wherein the souls<br>Of millions suffer until death? Thy heart<br>Is gold: hast thou betrayed the sun? Or hast<br>Thou stolen wondrous goods, in gliding from<br>The sun? Therefore is Death to be thy child,<br>A curse to wander on thy lovely sides,<br>That oft are torn and ever motherly<br>Will comfort the offender with her off'rings.<br>Or art thou dark because thy womb must be<br>The grave of all thy children, Mother Earth?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Carmen+Sylva">Carmen Sylva</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=116591" data-title="In the Dark de Carmen Sylva" data-description="The moon has but one side of light and beauty,/The other, steeped in never-ending night,/Seems worse than dead, as in the harmony/Of spheres, she cannot even echo. And/She died they say, for love of her great brother,/The glorious Sun, whom she ma..."></div> </div> </div>

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