<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354145" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Compensation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In that new world toward which our feet are set,<br>Shall we find aught to make our hearts forget<br>Earth's homely joys and her bright hours of bliss?<br>Has heaven a spell divine enough for this?<br>For who the pleasure of the spring shall tell<br>When on the leafless stalk the brown buds swell,<br>When the grass brightens and the days grow long,<br>And little birds break out in rippling song? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O sweet the dropping eve, the blush of morn,<br>The starlit sky, the rustling fields of corn,<br>The soft airs blowing from the freshening seas,<br>The sunflecked shadow of the stately trees,<br>The mellow thunder and the lulling rain,<br>The warm, delicious, happy summer rain,<br>When the grass brightens and the days grow long,<br>And little birds break out in rippling song! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O beauty manifold, from morn till night,<br>Dawn's flush, noon's blaze and sunset's tender light!<br>O fair, familiar features, changes sweet<br>Of her revolving seasons, storm and sleet<br>And golden calm, as slow she wheels through space,<br>From snow to roses, - and how dear her face,<br>When the grass brightens, when the days grow long,<br>And little birds break out in rippling song! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O happy earth! O home so well beloved!<br>What recompense have we, from thee removed?<br>One hope we have that overtops the whole, -<br>The hope of finding every vanished soul,<br>We love and long for daily, and for this<br>Gladly we turn from thee, and all thy bliss,<br>Even at thy loveliest, when the days are long,<br>And little birds break out in rippling song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Celia+Thaxter">Celia Thaxter</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=354145" data-title="Compensation de Celia Thaxter" data-description="In that new world toward which our feet are set, Shall we find aught to make our hearts forget Earth's homely joys and her bright hours of bliss? Has heaven a spell divine enough for this? For who the pleasure of the spring shall tell When on the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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