<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354514" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Albatross</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Often to pass the time on board, the crew<br>will catch an albatross, one of those big birds<br>which nonchalently chaperone a ship<br>across the bitter fathoms of the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tied to the deck, this sovereign of space,<br>as if embarrassed by its clumsiness,<br>pitiably lets its great white wings<br>drag at its sides like a pair of unshipped oars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How weak and awkward, even comical<br>this traveller but lately so adoit -<br>one deckhand sticks a pipestem in its beak,<br>another mocks the cripple that once flew!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Poet is like this monarch of the clouds<br>riding the storm above the marksman's range;<br>exiled on the ground, hooted and jeered,<br>he cannot walk because of his great wings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Baudelaire">Charles Baudelaire</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=354514" data-title="The Albatross de Charles Baudelaire" data-description="Often to pass the time on board, the crew will catch an albatross, one of those big birds which nonchalently chaperone a ship across the bitter fathoms of the sea. Tied to the deck, this sovereign of space, as if embarrassed by its clumsiness, pi..."></div> </div> </div>

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