<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343166" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Captivity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lion remembers the forest,<br>The lion in chains;<br>To the bird that is captive a vision<br>Of woodland remains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One strains with his strength at the fetter,<br>In impotent rage;<br>One flutters in flights of a moment,<br>And beats at the cage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If the lion were loosed from the fetter,<br>To wander again;<br>He would seek the wide silence and shadow<br>Of his jungle in vain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He would rage in his fury, destroying;<br>Let him rage, let him roam!<br>Shall he traverse the pitiless mountain,<br>Or swim through the foam?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If they opened the cage and the casement,<br>And the bird flew away;<br>He would come back at evening, heartbroken,<br>A captive for aye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would come if his kindred had spared him,<br>Free birds from afar--<br>There was wrought what is stronger than iron<br>In fetter and bar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I cannot remember my country,<br>The land whence I came;<br>Whence they brought me and chained me and made me<br>Nor wild thing nor tame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This only I know of my country,<br>This only repeat :--<br>It was free as the forest, and sweeter<br>Than woodland retreat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the chain shall at last be broken,<br>The window set wide;<br>And I step in the largeness and freedom<br>Of sunlight outside ;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall I wander in vain for my country?<br>Shall I seek and not find?<br>Shall I cry for the bars that encage me<br>The fetters that bind?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Amy+Levy">Amy Levy</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=343166" data-title="Captivity de Amy Levy" data-description="The lion remembers the forest, The lion in chains; To the bird that is captive a vision Of woodland remains. One strains with his strength at the fetter, In impotent rage; One flutters in flights of a moment, And beats at the cage. If the lion w..."></div> </div> </div>

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