<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341301" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A November Note</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why, throstle, do you sing<br>In this November haze?<br>Singing for what? for whom?<br>Deem you that it is Spring,<br>Or that your lonely lays<br>Will stave off Winter's gloom?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then did the bird reply:<br>``I sing because I know<br>That Spring will surely come:<br>That is the reason why,<br>Though menaced by the snow,<br>Even now I am not dumb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``But few are they that hear,<br>And fewer still that feel,<br>The meaning of my song,<br>Until the note be clear,<br>Re-echoed be the peal,<br>Early, and late, and long.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``But you have heard and owned<br>The sound of my refrain,<br>Yet tentative and low.<br>Thus, poet, be intoned<br>Your own foreshadowing strain,<br>Trusting that some will know:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``That some will know and say,<br>When greetings of the Spring<br>Wake Winter from its bed,<br>This is the self-same lay<br>We overheard him sing<br>When dead hearts deemed him dead.''</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Austin">Alfred Austin</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=341301" data-title="A November Note de Alfred Austin" data-description="Why, throstle, do you sing In this November haze? Singing for what? for whom? Deem you that it is Spring, Or that your lonely lays Will stave off Winter's gloom? Then did the bird reply: ``I sing because I know That Spring will surely come: That ..."></div> </div> </div>

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