<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354820" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Coast View</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">High ’mid the shelves of a grey cliff, that yet <br>Riseth in Babylonian mass above, <br>In a benched cleft, as in the mouldered chair <br>Of grey-beard Time himself, I sit alone, <br>And gaze with a keen wondering happiness <br>Out o’er the sea. Unto the circling bend <br>That verges Heaven, a vast luminous plain <br>It stretches, changeful as a lover’s dream— <br>Into great spaces mapped by light and shade <br>In constant interchange—either ‘neath clouds <br>The billows darken, or they shimmer bright <br>In sunny scopes of measureless expanse. <br>’Tis Ocean dreamless of a stormy hour, <br>Calm, or but gently heaving;—yet, O God! <br>What a blind fate-like mightiness lies coiled <br>In slumber, under that wide-shining face! <br>While o’er the watery gleam—there where its edge <br>Banks the dim vacancy, the topmost sails <br>Of some tall ship, whose hull is yet unseen, <br>Hang as if clinging to a cloud that still <br>Comes rising with them from the void beyond, <br>Like to a heavenly net, drawn from the deep <br>And carried upward by ethereal hands <br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Harpur">Charles Harpur</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=354820" data-title="A Coast View de Charles Harpur" data-description="High ’mid the shelves of a grey cliff, that yet Riseth in Babylonian mass above, In a benched cleft, as in the mouldered chair Of grey-beard Time himself, I sit alone, And gaze with a keen wondering happiness Out o’er the sea. Unto the ci..."></div> </div> </div>

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