<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=125075" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Elijah Browning</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was among multitudes of children <br>Dancing at the foot of a mountain. <br>A breeze blew out of the east and swept them as leaves, <br>Driving some up the slopes.... All was changed. <br>Here were flying lights, and mystic moons, and dream-music. <br>A cloud fell upon us. When it lifted all was changed. <br>I was now amid multitudes who were wrangling. <br>Then a figure in shimmering gold, and one with a trumpet, <br>And one with a sceptre stood before me. <br>They mocked me and danced a rigadoon and vanished.... <br>All was changed again. Out of a bower of poppies <br>A woman bared her breasts and lifted her open mouth to mine. <br>I kissed her. The taste of her lips was like salt. <br>She left blood on my lips. I fell exhausted. <br>I arose and ascended higher, but a mist as from an iceberg <br>Clouded my steps. I was cold and in pain. <br>Then the sun streamed on me again, <br>And I saw the mists below me hiding all below them. <br>And I, bent over my staff, knew myself <br>Silhouetted against the snow. And above me <br>Was the soundless air, pierced by a cone of ice, <br>Over which hung a solitary star! <br>A shudder of ecstasy, a shudder of fear <br>Ran through me. But I could not return to the slopes— <br>Nay, I wished not to return. <br>For the spent waves of the symphony of freedom <br>Lapped the ethereal cliffs about me. <br>Therefore I climbed to the pinnacle. <br>I flung away my staff. <br>I touched that star <br>With my outstretched hand. <br>I vanished utterly. <br>For the mountain delivers to Infinite Truth <br>Whosoever touches the star!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</a> from <i>Spoon River Anthology</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=125075" data-title="Elijah Browning de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I was among multitudes of children /Dancing at the foot of a mountain. /A breeze blew out of the east and swept them as leaves, /Driving some up the slopes.... All was changed. /Here were flying lights, and mystic moons, and dream-music. /A c..."></div> </div> </div>

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