<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354530" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lid</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whatever place he goes, on land or sea,<br>under a sky on fire, or a polar sun,<br>servant of Jesus, follower of Cytherea,<br>shadowy beggar, or Croesus the glittering one,<br>city-dweller or rustic, traveller or sedentary,<br>whether his tiny brain works fast or slow,<br>everywhere man knows the terror of mystery,<br>and with a trembling eye looks high or low. <br>Above, the Sky! That burial vault that stifles,<br>a ceiling lit for a comic opera, blind walls,<br>where each actor treads a blood-drenched stage:<br>Freethinkers’ fear, the hermit sets his hope on:<br>the Sky! The black lid of the giant cauldron,<br>under which we vast, invisible Beings rage.</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=354530" data-title="The Lid de Charles Baudelaire" data-description="Whatever place he goes, on land or sea, under a sky on fire, or a polar sun, servant of Jesus, follower of Cytherea, shadowy beggar, or Croesus the glittering one, city-dweller or rustic, traveller or sedentary, whether his tiny brain works fast o..."></div> </div> </div>

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