<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117321" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Charley's Death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wind got up moaning, and blew to a breeze;<br> I sat with my face closely pressed on the pane;<br> In a minute or two it began to rain,<br> And put out the sunset-fire in the trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> In the clouds' black faces broke out dismay<br> That ran of a sudden up half the sky,<br> And the team, cutting ruts in the grass, went by,<br> Heavy and dripping with sweet wet hay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Clutching the straws out and knitting his brow,<br> Walked Arthur beside it, unsteady of limb;<br> I stood up in wonder, for, following him,<br> Charley was used to be;--where was he now?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "'Tis like him," I said, "to be working thus late!"--<br> I said it, but did not believe it was so;<br> He could not have staid in the meadow to mow,<br> With rain coming down at so dismal a rate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> "He's bringing the cows home."--I choked at that lie:<br> They were huddled close by in a tumult and fret,<br> Some pawing the dry dust up out of the wet,<br> Some looking afield with their heads lifted high.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> O'er the run, o'er the hilltop, and on through the gloom<br> My vision ran quick as the lightning could dart;<br> All at once the blood shocked and stood still in my heart;--<br> He was coming as never till then he had come!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Borne 'twixt our four work-hands, I saw through the fall<br> Of the rain, and the shadows so thick and so dim,<br> They had taken their coats off and spread them on him,<br> And that he was lying out straight,--that was all!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alice+Cary">Alice Cary</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=117321" data-title="Charley's Death de Alice Cary" data-description="The wind got up moaning, and blew to a breeze;/ I sat with my face closely pressed on the pane;/ In a minute or two it began to rain,/ And put out the sunset-fire in the trees./ In the clouds' black faces broke out dismay/ That ran of a sudden up ..."></div> </div> </div>

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