<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357266" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Swimmer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I OFTEN wander on the beach <br>Where once, so brown of limb, <br>The biting air, the roaring surf <br>Summoned me to swim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see my old abundant youth <br>Whee combers lean and spill, <br>And though I taste the foam no more <br>Other swimmers will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, good exultant strength to meet <br>The arching wall of green, <br>To break the crystal, swirl, emerge <br>Dripping, taut, and clean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To climb the moving hilly blue, <br>To dive in ecstasy <br>And feel the salty chill embrace <br>Arm and rib and knee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What brave and vanished laughter then <br>And tingling thighs to run, <br>What warm and comfortable sands <br>Dreaming in the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The crumbling water spreads in snow, <br>The surf is hissing still, <br>And though I kiss the salt no more, <br>Other swimmers will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christopher+Morley">Christopher Morley</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=357266" data-title="The Old Swimmer de Christopher Morley" data-description="I OFTEN wander on the beach Where once, so brown of limb, The biting air, the roaring surf Summoned me to swim. I see my old abundant youth Whee combers lean and spill, And though I taste the foam no more Other swimmers will. Oh, good exul..."></div> </div> </div>

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