<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342204" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Song of Derivations</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I come from nothing; but from where<br>Come the undying thoughts I bear?<br>Down, through the long links of death and birth,<br>From the past poets of the earth,<br>My immortality is there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am like the blossom of an hour.<br>But long, long vanished sun and shower<br>Awoke my breath i' the young world's air;<br>I track the past back everywhere<br>Through seed and flower and seed and flower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or I am like a stream that flows<br>Full of the cold springs that arose<br>In morning lands, in distant hills;<br>And down the plain my channel fills<br>With melting of forgotten snows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Voices, I have not heard, possessed<br>My own fresh songs; my thoughts are blessed<br>With relics of the far unknown.<br>And mixed with memories not my own<br>The sweet streams throng in my breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before this life began to be,<br>The happy songs that wake in me<br>Woke long ago and far apart.<br>Heavily on this little heart<br>Presses this immortality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alice+Meynell">Alice Meynell</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=342204" data-title="A Song of Derivations de Alice Meynell" data-description="I come from nothing; but from where Come the undying thoughts I bear? Down, through the long links of death and birth, From the past poets of the earth, My immortality is there. I am like the blossom of an hour. But long, long vanished sun and sh..."></div> </div> </div>

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