<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353513" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Waiting</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Magdalen’s grounds<br>are full of life, <br>full of space.<br>Space, which is mown<br>and cleared, <br>tended and enclosed, <br>its waterways unchoked, <br>brown and sparkling clear.<br>It is home to ducks<br>and coots, <br>to dragonflies and deer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grass and paths and gates <br>and streams<br>and yesterday’s undergraduates<br>are waiting.<br>Not for the return of the past<br>nor the coming of an awaited future.<br>The past once gone<br>is a steadily fading photograph.<br>The future, once conceived, <br>is never as imagined.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No. They wait<br>for someone<br>with an empty heart<br>to play his part<br>without reluctance<br>or reserve; <br>to acknowledge<br>all this labour<br>of hand and eye<br>and the genius of the green and living.<br>To see<br>and bless<br>it all<br>and say, “Yes! ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then it can all begin, <br>the breathing out of being, <br>the eternal sigh, <br>the letting go at last<br>and surrender<br>to the sleep<br>of not being planned, <br>of not having to remember, <br>of not having to hold apart<br>future and past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of being at peace again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Brian+Taylor">Brian Taylor</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=353513" data-title="Waiting de Brian Taylor" data-description="Magdalen’s grounds are full of life, full of space. Space, which is mown and cleared, tended and enclosed, its waterways unchoked, brown and sparkling clear. It is home to ducks and coots, to dragonflies and deer. Grass and paths and gates..."></div> </div> </div>

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