<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348155" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sapphics</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Clothed in splendour, beautifully sad and silent,<br>Comes the autumn over the woods and highlands,<br>Golden, rose-red, full of divine remembrance,<br>Full of foreboding.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon the maples, soon will the glowing birches,<br>Stripped of all that summer and love had dowered them,<br>Dream, sad-limbed, beholding their pomp and treasure<br>Ruthlessly scattered:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet they quail not: Winter with wind and iron<br>Comes and finds them silent and uncomplaining,<br>Finds them tameless, beautiful still and gracious,<br>Gravely enduring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me too changes, bitter and full of evil,<br>Dream by dream have plundered and left me naked,<br>Grey with sorrow. Even the days before me<br>Fade into twilight,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mute and barren. Yet will I keep my spirit<br>Clear and valiant, brother to these my noble<br>Elms and maples, utterly grave and fearless,<br>Grandly ungrieving.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brief the span is, counting the years of mortals,<br>Strange and sad; it passes, and then the bright earth,<br>Careless mother, gleaming with gold and azure,<br>Lovely with blossoms--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shining white anemones, mixed with roses,<br>Daisies mild-eyed, grasses and honeyed clover--<br>You, and me, and all of us, met and equal,<br>Softly shall cover.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Archibald+Lampman">Archibald Lampman</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=348155" data-title="Sapphics de Archibald Lampman" data-description="Clothed in splendour, beautifully sad and silent, Comes the autumn over the woods and highlands, Golden, rose-red, full of divine remembrance, Full of foreboding. Soon the maples, soon will the glowing birches, Stripped of all that summer and lov..."></div> </div> </div>

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