<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=352769" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Linden Avenue</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A house of unimagined beauty<br>Is set in parkland, cool and dark;<br>Gates with an arch; then meadows, hillocks,<br>And oats and woods beyond the park.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here, with their crowns each other hiding,<br>Enormous linden trees engage<br>In dusky, quiet celebration<br>Of their two hundred years of age.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And underneath their vaulted branches,<br>Across the regularly drawn<br>Symmetric avenues, grow flowers<br>In flower-beds upon a lawn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beneath the trees, on sandy pathways,<br>Not one bright spot relieves the dark,<br>Save-like an opening in a tunnel-<br>The distant entrance of the park.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now the blossom-time is starting,<br>The walled-in linden trees reveal<br>And spread about within their shadow<br>Their irresistible appeal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The visitors, in summer clothing,<br>While walking on the crunchy sand,<br>Breathe in unfathomable fragrance<br>Which only bees can understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This gripping scent is theme and subject,<br>Whereas-however well they look-<br>The flower-beds, the lawn, the garden,<br>Are but the cover of a book.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The clustered, wax-bespattered flowers<br>On massive trees, sedate and old,<br>Lit up by raindrops, burn and sparkle<br>Above the mansion they enfold.</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=352769" data-title="The Linden Avenue de Boris Pasternak" data-description="A house of unimagined beauty Is set in parkland, cool and dark; Gates with an arch; then meadows, hillocks, And oats and woods beyond the park. Here, with their crowns each other hiding, Enormous linden trees engage In dusky, quiet celebration Of..."></div> </div> </div>

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