<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350893" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Traveller from afar</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I met a traveller from an antique land, <br>and saw beneath that turbaned head<br>not a visitor but brother too, <br>though lineage was but black and white.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What was far away, and camels feet away, <br>and ships sails away, pirated too away.<br>Yet walking on my street his street, <br>and close to his ribs held a Dublin girl, <br>close to his ribs.<br>As if God's hand had returned the joints of Adam<br>and joined again in one.<br>She laughed and threw her happy head, <br>and smiled and kissed his darkened brow, <br>his blackened brow, <br>as mahogany is dark.<br>And it was love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He held her close and matching hair<br>his skin was foreign shining joy, <br>and Oh! I thought how near we were<br>to fields that once were far.<br>And also thought how blood might fight<br>the girl from Dublin's laughing street.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how religion too might stop<br>in God's own secret talk this love.<br>Although the Magi far had come<br>from foreign antique lands<br>And darkened skin was Melchior<br>and darkened too that world.<br>yet in that dark the star did shine<br>and laughter shone their too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watched them sweep in through the door<br>and sit and ice cream share, <br>and short of coins, their love did rest<br>upon one spoon of love.<br>And kiss black lips, <br>and brighter eyes<br>the foreign vision here.,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bernard+Kennedy">Bernard Kennedy</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=350893" data-title="Traveller from afar de Bernard Kennedy" data-description="I met a traveller from an antique land, and saw beneath that turbaned head not a visitor but brother too, though lineage was but black and white. What was far away, and camels feet away, and ships sails away, pirated too away. Yet walking on m..."></div> </div> </div>

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