<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348463" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>China 1899</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She lies, a grave disdain all her defence, <br>Too imperturbable for scorn. She hears <br>Only the murmur of the flowing years <br>That thunder slowly on her shores immense <br>And ebb away in moaning impotence. <br>Giants enduring, she and Time are peers-- <br>Her dream-hazed eyes knowing no hopes, no tears, <br>Her glance a langour-lidded insolence. <br>And though the rabble of the restless West <br>In her deserted courts set their rash sway, <br>She heeds them not; as when the sun, withdrawn <br>From his untarnished sky, knows it distressed <br>By storm of weakling stars, that he at dawn <br>Will wither with one ruthless glance away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Henry+Adams">Arthur Henry Adams</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=348463" data-title="China 1899 de Arthur Henry Adams" data-description="She lies, a grave disdain all her defence, Too imperturbable for scorn. She hears Only the murmur of the flowing years That thunder slowly on her shores immense And ebb away in moaning impotence. Giants enduring, she and Time are peers-- Her..."></div> </div> </div>

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