<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=352749" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ploughing Time</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is the matter with the landscape?<br>Familiar landmarks are not there.<br>Ploughed fields, like squares upon a chessboard,<br>Today are scattered everywhere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The newly-harrowed vast expanses<br>So evenly are spread about,<br>As though the valley had been spring-cleaned<br>Or else the mountains flattened out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that same day, in one endeavour,<br>Outside the furrows every tree<br>Bursts into leaf, light-green and downy,<br>And stretches skyward, tall and free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No speck of dust on the new maples,<br>And colours nowhere are as clean<br>As is the light-grey of the ploughland<br>And as the silver-birch's green.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Boris+Pasternak">Boris Pasternak</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=352749" data-title="Ploughing Time de Boris Pasternak" data-description="What is the matter with the landscape? Familiar landmarks are not there. Ploughed fields, like squares upon a chessboard, Today are scattered everywhere. The newly-harrowed vast expanses So evenly are spread about, As though the valley had been s..."></div> </div> </div>

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