<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118415" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Even the Winds and the Sea obey</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SAID the Poet, I wouldn’t maintain,<br>As the mystical German has done,<br>That the land, inexistent till then,<br>To reward him then first saw the sun;<br>And yet I could deem it was so,<br>As o’er the new waters he sailed,<br>That his soul made the breezes to blow,<br>With his courage the breezes had failed;<br>His strong quiet purpose had still<br>The hurricane’s fury withheld;<br>The resolve of his conquering will<br>The lingering vessel impelled:<br>For the beings, the powers that range<br>In the air, on the earth, at our sides,<br>Can modify, temper and change<br>Stronger things than the winds and the tides,<br>By forces occult can the laws—<br>As we style them—of nature o’errule;<br>Can cause, so to say, every cause,<br>And our best mathematics befool;<br>Can defeat calculation and plan,<br>Baffle schemes ne’er so wisely designed,<br>But will bow to the genius of man,<br>And acknowledge a sovereign mind.</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=118415" data-title="Even the Winds and the Sea obey de Arthur Hugh Clough" data-description="SAID the Poet, I wouldn’t maintain,/As the mystical German has done,/That the land, inexistent till then,/To reward him then first saw the sun;/And yet I could deem it was so,/As o’er the new waters he sailed,/That his soul made the breezes to..."></div> </div> </div>

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