<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=336017" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Scotland’s Winter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill,<br>The sun looks from the hill<br>Helmed in his winter casket,<br>And sweeps his arctic sword across the sky.<br>The water at the mill<br>Sounds more hoarse and dull.<br>The miller’s daughter walking by<br>With frozen fingers soldered to her basket<br>Seems to be knocking<br>Upon a hundred leagues of floor<br>With her light heels, and mocking<br>Percy and Douglas dead,<br>And Bruce on his burial bed,<br>Where he lies white as may<br>With wars and leprosy,<br>And all the kings before<br>This land was kingless,<br>And all the singers before<br>This land was songless,<br>This land that with its dead and living waits the Judgement Day.<br>But they, the powerless dead,<br>Listening can hear no more<br>Than a hard tapping on the floor<br>A little overhead<br>Of common heels that do not know<br>Whence they come or where they go<br>And are content<br>With their poor frozen life and shallow banishment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwin+Muir">Edwin Muir</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=336017" data-title="Scotland’s Winter de Edwin Muir" data-description="Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill,/The sun looks from the hill/Helmed in his winter casket,/And sweeps his arctic sword across the sky./The water at the mill/Sounds more hoarse and dull./The miller’s daughter walking by/With frozen f..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black