<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344271" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Partant Pour La Scribie</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pleasant land is Scribie, where<br>The light comes mostly from below,<br>And seems a sort of symbol rare<br>Of things at large, and how they go,<br>In rooms where doors are everywhere<br>And cupboards shelter friend or foe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is a realm where people tell<br>Each other, when they chance to meet,<br>Of things that long ago befell -<br>And do most solemnly repeat<br>Secrets they both know very well,<br>Aloud, and in the public street!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A land where lovers go in fours,<br>Master and mistress, man and maid;<br>Where people listen at the doors<br>Or 'neath a table's friendly shade,<br>And comic Irishmen in scores<br>Roam o'er the scenes all undismayed:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A land where Virtue in distress<br>Owes much to uncles in disguise;<br>Where British sailors frankly bless<br>Their limbs, their timbers, and their eyes;<br>And where the villain doth confess,<br>Conveniently, before he dies!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A land of lovers false and gay;<br>A land where people dread a 'curse;'<br>A land of letters gone astray,<br>Or intercepted, which is worse;<br>Where weddings false fond maids betray,<br>And all the babes are changed at nurse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, happy land, where things come right!<br>We of the world where things go ill;<br>Where lovers love, but don't unite;<br>Where no one finds the Missing Will -<br>Dominion of the heart's delight,<br>Scribie, we've loved, and love thee still!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Lang">Andrew Lang</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=344271" data-title="Partant Pour La Scribie de Andrew Lang" data-description="A pleasant land is Scribie, where The light comes mostly from below, And seems a sort of symbol rare Of things at large, and how they go, In rooms where doors are everywhere And cupboards shelter friend or foe. This is a realm where people tell E..."></div> </div> </div>

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