<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117249" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hesperia</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Across the stretch of southward seas<br> The zephyr-swept Hesperides<br> Lie smiling, ever smiling;<br>And there the laughter-loving Pan<br>Leads on his joyous woodland clan<br>Through halcyon haunts, unknown to man,<br> With song the hours beguiling.<br>O fair, far land, thy portals<br>Swing only to immortals!<br> Thy scented bowers, thy wondrous flowers,<br> Thy pleasant ways of ease,<br>Thy nights dew-dipped and breathless,<br>Thy birds, unwearied, deathless—<br> These charms untold I’d fain behold,<br> Fair, far Hesperides!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dusk with all her wealth of stars,<br>The dawn, when clouds like crimson bars<br> Turn all the east to splendor,<br>Bring roseate dreamings unto me<br>Of Nereids flashing from the sea,<br>Who turn their shining eyes to thee,<br> Thou land of music tender.<br>But ah, ’t is useless dreaming—<br>Thy woodland pools that, gleaming<br> Like bits of sky, unruffled lie,<br> Are not for eyes like these;<br>Yet, could my longing vision<br>Behold thy fields Elysian,<br> What peace divine I’d claim as mine,<br> Fair, far Hesperides!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Guy+Wetmore+Carryl">Guy Wetmore Carryl</a> from <i>The Garden of Years and Other 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=117249" data-title="Hesperia de Guy Wetmore Carryl" data-description="Across the stretch of southward seas/ The zephyr-swept Hesperides/ Lie smiling, ever smiling;/And there the laughter-loving Pan/Leads on his joyous woodland clan/Through halcyon haunts, unknown to man,/ With song the hours beguiling./O fair, far l..."></div> </div> </div>

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