<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358583" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Improvisations: Light And Snow: 12</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How many times have we been interrupted<br>Just as I was about to make up a story for you!<br>One time it was because we suddenly saw a firefly<br>Lighting his green lantern among the boughs of a fir-tree.<br>Marvellous! Marvellous! He is making for himself<br>A little tent of light in the darkness!<br>And one time it was because we saw a lilac lightning flash<br>Run wrinkling into the blue top of the mountain, —<br>We heard boulders of thunder rolling down upon us<br>And the plat-plat of drops on the window,<br>And we ran to watch the rain<br>Charging in wavering clouds across the long grass of the field!<br>Or at other times it was because we saw a star<br>Slipping easily out of the sky and falling, far off,<br>Among pine-dark hills;<br>Or because we found a crimson eft<br>Darting in the cold grass!<br>These things interrupted us and left us wondering;<br>And the stories, whatever they might have been,<br>Were never told.<br>A fairy, binding a daisy down and laughing?<br>A golden-haired princess caught in a cobweb?<br>A love-story of long ago?<br>Some day, just as we are beginning again,<br>Just as we blow the first sweet note,<br>Death itself will interrupt us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Conrad+Potter+Aiken">Conrad Potter Aiken</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=358583" data-title="Improvisations: Light And Snow: 12 de Conrad Potter Aiken" data-description="How many times have we been interrupted Just as I was about to make up a story for you! One time it was because we suddenly saw a firefly Lighting his green lantern among the boughs of a fir-tree. Marvellous! Marvellous! He is making for himself A..."></div> </div> </div>

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