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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341821" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Peace In A Palace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You were weeping in the night,' said the Emperor,<br>'Weeping in your sleep, I am told.'<br>'It was nothing but a dream,' said the Empress;<br>But her face grew gray and old.<br>'You thought you saw our German God defeated?'<br>'Oh, no!' she said. 'I saw no lightnings fall.<br>I dreamed of a whirlpool of green water,<br>Where something had gone down. That was all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">_'All but the whimper of the sea gulls flying,<br>Endlessly round and round,<br>Waiting for the faces, the faces from the darkness,<br>The dreadful rising faces of the drowned._</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It was nothing but a dream,' said the Empress.<br>'I thought I was walking on the sea;<br>And the foam rushed up in a wild smother,<br>And a crowd of little faces looked at me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were drowning! They were drowning,' said the Empress,<br>'And they stretched their feeble arms to the sky;<br>But the worst was--they mistook me for their mother,<br>And cried as my children used to cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">_'Nothing but a whimper of the sea-gulls flying,<br>Endlessly round and round,<br>With the cruel yellow beaks that were waiting for the faces,<br>The little floating faces of the drowned.'_</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It was nothing but a dream,' said the Emperor,<br>'So why should you weep, dear, eh?'--<br>'Oh, I saw the red letters on a life belt<br>That the green sea washed my way!'--<br>'What were they?' said the Emperor. 'What were they?'--<br>'Some of them were hidden,' said the Empress,<br>'But I plainly saw the L and the U!'<br>'In God's name, stop!' said the Emperor.<br>'You told me that it was not true!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">_'Told me that you dreamed of the sea gulls flying,<br>Endlessly round and round,<br>Waiting for the faces, and the eyes in the faces,<br>The eyes of the children that we drowned._</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Kiss me and forget it,' said the Emperor,<br>'Dry your tears on the tassel of my sword.<br>I am going to offer peace to my people,<br>And abdicate, perhaps, as overlord.<br>I shall now take up My Cross as Count of Prussia--<br>Which is not a heavy burden, you'll agree.<br>Why, before the twenty million dead are rotten<br>There'll be yachting days again for you and me.<br>Cheer up!<br>It would mean a rope for anyone but Me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">_'Oh, take care!' said the Empress. 'They are flying,<br>Endlessly round and round.<br>They have finished with the faces, the dreadful little faces,<br>The little eyeless faces of the drowned.'_</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Noyes">Alfred Noyes</a><div class=q>
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'Weeping in your sleep, I am told.'
'It was nothing but a dream,' said the Empress;
But her face grew gray and old.
'You thought you saw our German God defeated?'
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