<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=352772" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Road</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down into the ravine, then forward<br>Up the embankment to the top,<br>The ribbon of the road runs snaking<br>Through wood and field without a stop.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By all the precepts of perspective<br>Well-surfaced highway windings rush<br>Among the fields, among the meadows,<br>Not raising dust, nor stuck in slush.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The peaceful pond nearby ignoring<br>(On which a duck with ducklings swam)<br>The road once more is forward soaring<br>On having crossed and left the dam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now-down a slope again it hastens,<br>Now-on and upwards, in a climb,<br>As only life, maybe, is meant to<br>Strain up and onward all the time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through thousands of unheard-of fancies,<br>Through times and countries, climb and fall,<br>Through helps and hindrances it races<br>Relentless, too, towards a goal;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this is to have lived your fullest,<br>Experienced all-at home, abroad-<br>Just as the landscape now is livened<br>By twists and turnings of the road.</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=352772" data-title="The Road de Boris Pasternak" data-description="Down into the ravine, then forward Up the embankment to the top, The ribbon of the road runs snaking Through wood and field without a stop. By all the precepts of perspective Well-surfaced highway windings rush Among the fields, among the meadows..."></div> </div> </div>

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