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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=356105" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Dream</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hear now a curious dream I dreamed last night<br>Each word whereof is weighed and sifted truth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stood beside Euphrates while it swelled<br>Like overflowing Jordan in its youth:<br>It waxed and coloured sensibly to sight;<br>Till out of myriad pregnant waves there welled<br>Young crocodiles, a gaunt blunt-featured crew,<br>Fresh-hatched perhaps and daubed with birthday dew.<br>The rest if I should tell, I fear my friend<br>My closest friend would deem the facts untrue; <br>And therefore it were wisely left untold;<br>Yet if you will, why, hear it to the end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each crocodile was girt with massive gold<br>And polished stones that with their wearers grew:<br>But one there was who waxed beyond the rest,<br>Wore kinglier girdle and a kingly crown,<br>Whilst crowns and orbs and sceptres starred his breast.<br>All gleamed compact and green with scale on scale,<br>But special burnishment adorned his mail<br>And special terror weighed upon his frown; <br>His punier brethren quaked before his tail,<br>Broad as a rafter, potent as a flail.<br>So he grew lord and master of his kin:<br>But who shall tell the tale of all their woes?<br>An execrable appetite arose,<br>He battened on them, crunched, and sucked them in.<br>He knew no law, he feared no binding law,<br>But ground them with inexorable jaw:<br>The luscious fat distilled upon his chin,<br>Exuded from his nostrils and his eyes, <br>While still like hungry death he fed his maw;<br>Till every minor crocodile being dead<br>And buried too, himself gorged to the full,<br>He slept with breath oppressed and unstrung claw.<br>Oh marvel passing strange which next I saw:<br>In sleep he dwindled to the common size,<br>And all the empire faded from his coat.<br>Then from far off a winged vessel came,<br>Swift as a swallow, subtle as a flame:<br>I know not what it bore of freight or host, <br>But white it was as an avenging ghost.<br>It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;<br>Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote<br>It seemed to tame the waters without force<br>Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:<br>Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,<br>The prudent crocodile rose on his feet<br>And shed appropriate tears and wrung his hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What can it mean? you ask. I answer not<br>For meaning, but myself must echo, What? <br>And tell it as I saw it on the spot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christina+Georgina+Rossetti">Christina Georgina Rossetti</a><div class=q>
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Each word whereof is weighed and sifted truth.

I stood beside Euphrates while it swelled
Like overflowing Jordan in its youth:
It waxed and coloured sensibly to sight;
Till out of myriad pregnant wave..."></div>
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