<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358039" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Walhalla</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dark lady of the laggard dawn,<br>Hiding within her gully deep;<br>Long have night's curtains been withdrawn<br>Before her earliest sun-shaft's peep.<br>And, long before the sun sinks down,<br>Eve's eager shadows creep her way,<br>Committing to the sheltered town<br>Nought but a niggard glimpse of day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And shy enough she seems these days<br>Who was, long since, belle of them all;<br>When booted diggers went their way<br>Around about her ramparts tall.<br>Full generous she was and proud,<br>Proffering gold by ton on ton,<br>Where once the toiling, teaming crowd<br>Made most of her ungenerous fun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For rich she was beyond belief <br>Full rich enough to make man's strife;<br>But her youth, like her day, was brief <br>Too brief, but filled with glamorous life<br>While her wealth spread her wide renown,<br>While gold called to man's highest hopes<br>And urgent diggers crowded round<br>By these, her mighty timbered slopes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, as calm days come and go<br>Peaceful her quiet hamlet sleeps<br>A full three thousand feet below<br>The far crests of her wooded steeps;<br>And nought, save gnarled old English trees,<br>Stir to recall dead day passed on,<br>To leave her with proud memories<br>Of great and golden youth long gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=358039" data-title="Walhalla de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Dark lady of the laggard dawn, Hiding within her gully deep; Long have night's curtains been withdrawn Before her earliest sun-shaft's peep. And, long before the sun sinks down, Eve's eager shadows creep her way, Committing to the sheltered town N..."></div> </div> </div>

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