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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358462" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Le Roi S’Amuse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jove gazed<br>On woven mazes<br>Of patterned movement as the atoms whirled.<br>His glance turned<br>Into dancing, burning<br>Colour-gods who rushed upon that sullen world,<br>Waking, re-making, exalting it anew –<br>Silver and purple, shrill-voiced yellow, turgid crimson, and virgin blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jove stared<br>On overbearing<br>And aching splendour of the naked rocks.<br>Where his gaze smote,<br>Hazily floated<br>To mount like thistledown in countless flocks,<br>Fruit-loving, root-loving gods, cool and green <br>Of feathery grasses, heather and orchard, pollen'd lily, the olive and the bean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jove laughed.<br>Like cloven-shafted<br>Lightning, his laughter into brightness broke.<br>From every dint<br>Where the severed splinters<br>Had scattered a Sylvan or a Satyr woke;<br>Ounces came pouncing, dragon-people flew, <br>There was spirited stallion, squirrel unrespectful, clanging raven and kangaroo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jove sighed.<br>The hoving tide of<br>Ocean trembled at the motion of his breath.<br>The sigh turned<br>Into white, eternal,<br>Radiant Aphrodite unafraid of death;<br>A fragrance, a vagrant unrest on earth she flung, <br>There was favouring and fondling and bravery and building <br>and chuckling music and suckling of the young.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jove thought.<br>He strove and wrought at<br>A thousand clarities; from his brows sprang<br>With earnest mien<br>Stern Athene;<br>The cold armour on her shoulders rang.<br>Our sires at the fires of her lucid eyes began <br>To speak in symbols, to seek out causes, to name the creatures; they became Man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">World and Man<br>Unfurled their banner – <br>It was gay Behemoth on a sable field.<br>Fresh-robed<br>In flesh, the ennobled<br>Spirits carousing in their myriads reeled;<br>There was frolic and holiday. Jove laughed to see <br>The abyss empeopled, his bliss imparted, the throng that was his and no longer he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clive+Staples+Lewis">Clive Staples Lewis</a><div class=q>
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On woven mazes
Of patterned movement as the atoms whirled.
His glance turned
Into dancing, burning
Colour-gods who rushed upon that sullen world,
Waking, re-making, exalting it anew –
Silver and purple, shrill-voiced yellow, turgid cr..."></div>
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