<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345144" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Cranes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We thought they were gulls at first,<br>while they were distant-<br>The two cranes flying out of a natural morning,<br>They circled twice about our house and sank,<br>Their long legs drooping, down over the wood.<br>We saw their wings flash white,<br>Frayed at the black tip,<br>And heard their harsh cry, like a rusty screw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down in the next field, shy and angular,<br>They darted their long necks in the grass for fish.<br>They would not have us close, but shambled coyly,<br>Ridiculous, caught on the ground. Yet our fields<br>Under their feet became a fen: the sky<br>That was blue July became watery November,<br>And echoing with the cries of foreign birds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Barbara+Ridler">Anne Barbara Ridler</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=345144" data-title="The Cranes de Anne Barbara Ridler" data-description="We thought they were gulls at first, while they were distant- The two cranes flying out of a natural morning, They circled twice about our house and sank, Their long legs drooping, down over the wood. We saw their wings flash white, Frayed at the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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