<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341306" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Question Answered</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw the lark at break of day<br>Rise from its dewy bed,<br>And, winged with melody, away<br>Circle to Heaven o'erhead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watched it higher and higher soar,<br>Still ceasing not to trill,<br>When, though I could descry no more<br>Its flight, I heard it still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But shortly quavered back its note,<br>And, hovering into sight,<br>I saw it, homeward sinking, float<br>Over its nest of night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``Tell me,'' I cried, ``glad songster, why<br>You, privileged to wend<br>Up to the blue and boundless sky,<br>Where only wings ascend,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``Full into Heaven, to look and gaze<br>Whither our thoughts aspire,<br>And, unrebuked, terrestrial lays<br>Blend with celestial choir,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``Why you, thus welcomed to the height<br>Of minstrelsy and mirth,<br>Pavilioned high from mortal sight,<br>Come back again to Earth.''</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then shook the lark again its wings,<br>And, fluttering o'er its bed<br>Deep-bosomed in the grassy floor,<br>In rippling answer said:-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``'Tis joy to mount, alone, aloft,<br>Into the ether clear,<br>And thence look down on garth and croft<br>Of red-roofed hamlets here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``To sing my song through endless space,<br>Towering above, above,<br>While mortals watch with upturned face<br>Of longing and of love;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``Then, for a while, unseen to pass<br>Through unsubstantial dome,<br>But treble back to tangled grass-<br>Not Heaven, withal my home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``And tell me, when I skyward sing,<br>Am I unlike to you,<br>That on Imagination's wing<br>Strain sometimes out of view</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``Into the radiant Realms untrod<br>Song can alone descry,<br>And whilom join, by grace of God,<br>Angelic company</div><div style="margin:10px 0">``Yet sink down from the firmament<br>Back to life's dearth and dole,<br>Knowing full well that song was sent<br>To comfort and console.''</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=341306" data-title="A Question Answered de Alfred Austin" data-description="I saw the lark at break of day Rise from its dewy bed, And, winged with melody, away Circle to Heaven o'erhead. I watched it higher and higher soar, Still ceasing not to trill, When, though I could descry no more Its flight, I heard it still. Bu..."></div> </div> </div>

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