<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341468" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The lark confinèd in his cage</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lark confinèd in his cage,<br>And captive in his wing,<br>Though fluttering with imprisoned rage,<br>Forbeareth not to sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But still the strain, though loud and long,<br>Is but the mock of mirth,<br>Not that dawn-dewy nuptial song<br>That weddeth Heaven with Earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Voice that in freedom seems so soft,<br>Fettered, sounds harsh and rough.<br>Listen! He shrilleth far too oft,<br>Nor faltereth half enough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I, still feebler it not free,<br>Do hourly more and more<br>Grow silent in captivity,<br>And, if I sing, must soar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as the lark's free carol floats<br>High on a sea of sound,<br>So let me fling my random notes<br>To ripple round and round.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hark! now he shakes the towering skies,<br>A carillon of light,<br>Then dwindleth to a faint surmise,<br>Still singing out of sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, though in clearest light arrayed<br>The Poet's song should shine,<br>Sometimes his far-off voice will fade<br>Into the dim divine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then we with following ear and heart<br>Should listen to the end,<br>Though we descry may but in part,<br>And dimly apprehend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! soon he quits his heavenly quest,<br>Slow-carolling into sight,<br>Then, quavering downward, strikes his nest,<br>Earthward aerolite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So doubt not, dear, that if I soar<br>Where none longwhile may dwell,<br>Though Heaven at times may be my home,<br>Home is my Heaven as well.</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=341468" data-title="The lark confinèd in his cage de Alfred Austin" data-description="The lark confinèd in his cage, And captive in his wing, Though fluttering with imprisoned rage, Forbeareth not to sing. But still the strain, though loud and long, Is but the mock of mirth, Not that dawn-dewy nuptial song That weddeth Heaven wit..."></div> </div> </div>

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