<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118542" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Near and Far</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The air is full of perfume and the promise of the<br>spring,<br>From wintry mould the dainty blossoms come;<br>There's not a bird in all the boughs but 's eager<br>now to sing,<br>And from afar a ship is sailing home!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cherry-blooms, all lightly blown about the ver-<br>dant sward,<br>With silver fleck the dandelion's gold;<br>The jasmine and arbutus breathe the fragrance<br>they have stored;<br>The crumpled ferns, like faery tents, unfold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And low the rills are laughing, and the rivers in<br>the sun<br>Are gliding on, impatient for the sea;<br>The wintry days are past and gone, the summer is<br>begun,<br>And love from far is sailing home to me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, blessed spring!—how far more sweet than<br>any spring of yore!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No note of all thy harmonies is dumb;<br>With thee my heart awakes to hope and happiness<br>once more,<br>And from afar a ship is sailing home!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>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=118542" data-title="Near and Far de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="The air is full of perfume and the promise of the/spring,/From wintry mould the dainty blossoms come;/There's not a bird in all the boughs but 's eager/now to sing,/And from afar a ship is sailing home!/The cherry-blooms, all lightly blown about t..."></div> </div> </div>

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