<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118202" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Qua Cursum Ventus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AS ships, becalmed at eve, that lay<br> With canvas drooping, side by side,<br>Two towers of sail at dawn of day<br> Are scarce long leagues apart descried;<br> <br>When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, 5<br> And all the darkling hours they plied,<br>Nor dreamt but each the self-same seas<br> By each was cleaving, side by side:<br> <br>E’en so—but why the tale reveal<br> Of those, whom year by year unchanged,<br>Brief absence joined anew to feel,<br> Astounded, soul from soul estranged?<br> <br>At dead of night their sails were filled,<br> And onward each rejoicing steered—<br>Ah, neither blame, for neither willed,<br> Or wist, what first with dawn appeared!<br> <br>To veer, how vain! On, onward strain,<br> Brave barks! In light, in darkness too,<br>Through winds and tides one compass guides:<br> To that, and your own selves, be true.<br> <br>But O blithe breeze; and O great seas,<br> Though ne’er, that earliest parting past,<br>On your wide plain they join again,<br> Together lead them home at last.<br> <br>One port, methought, alike they sought,<br> One purpose hold where’er they fare,—<br>O bounding breeze, O rushing seas!<br> At last, at last, unite them there!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</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=118202" data-title="Qua Cursum Ventus de Arthur Hugh Clough" data-description="AS ships, becalmed at eve, that lay/ With canvas drooping, side by side,/Two towers of sail at dawn of day/ Are scarce long leagues apart descried;/ /When fell the night, upsprung the breeze, 5/ And all the darkling hours they plied,/Nor dreamt bu..."></div> </div> </div>

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