<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351396" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Over The Lofty Mountains</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wonder I must, what I once may see<br> Over the lofty mountains!<br>Eyes shall meet only snow, may be;<br>Standing here, each evergreen tree<br> Over the heights is yearning;--<br> Will it be long in learning?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pinions strong bear the eagle away<br> Over the lofty mountains<br>Forth to the young and vigorous day;<br>There he exults in the swift, wild play,<br> Rests where his spirit orders,--<br> Sees all the wide world's borders.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Full-leaved the apple-tree wishes naught<br> Over the lofty mountains!<br>Spreading, when summer hither is brought,<br>Waiting till next time in its thought;<br> Many a bird it is swinging,<br> Knowing not what they are singing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He who has longed for twenty years<br> Over the lofty mountains,<br>He who knows that he never nears,<br>Smaller feels with the lapsing years,<br> Heeds what the bird is singing<br> Cheerily to its swinging.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Garrulous bird, what will you here<br> Over the lofty mountains?<br>Surely your nest was there less drear,<br>Taller the trees, the outlook clear;--<br> Will you then only bring me<br> Longings, but naught to wing me?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall I then never, never go<br> Over the lofty mountains?<br>Shall to my thoughts this wall say,--No!<br>Stand with terror of ice and snow,<br> Barring the way unwended,<br> Coffin me when life is ended?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out will I! Out!--Oh, so far, far, far,<br> Over the lofty mountains!<br>Here is this cramping, confining bar,<br>Baffling my thoughts, that so buoyant are;--<br> Lord! Let me try the scaling,<br> Suffer no final failing!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometime I know I shall rise and soar<br> Over the lofty mountains.<br>Hast Thou already ajar Thy door?--<br>Good is Thy home! Yet, Lord, I implore,<br> Hold not the gates asunder,--<br> Leave me my longing wonder!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bj%C3%B8rnstjerne+Bj%C3%B8rnson">Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson</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=351396" data-title="Over The Lofty Mountains de Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson" data-description="Wonder I must, what I once may see Over the lofty mountains! Eyes shall meet only snow, may be; Standing here, each evergreen tree Over the heights is yearning;-- Will it be long in learning? Pinions strong bear the eagle away Over the lofty ..."></div> </div> </div>

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