<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348250" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The End of the World</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Quite unexpectedly, as Vasserot<br>The armless ambidextrian was lighting<br>A match between his great and second toe,<br>And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting<br>The neck of Madame Sossman while the drum<br>Pointed, and Teeny was about to cough<br>In waltz-time swinging Jocko by the thumb<br>Quite unexpectedly to top blew off:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there, there overhead, there, there hung over<br>Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes,<br>There in the starless dark, the poise, the hover,<br>There with vast wings across the cancelled skies,<br>There in the sudden blackness the black pall<br>Of nothing, nothing, nothing -- nothing at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Archibald+MacLeish">Archibald MacLeish</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=348250" data-title="The End of the World de Archibald MacLeish" data-description="Quite unexpectedly, as Vasserot The armless ambidextrian was lighting A match between his great and second toe, And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting The neck of Madame Sossman while the drum Pointed, and Teeny was about to cough In waltz-time ..."></div> </div> </div>

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