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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nightmare</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Draw three cards, and I will tell your future . . .<br>Draw three cards, and lay them down,<br>Rest your palms upon them, stare at the crystal,<br>And think of time . . . My father was a clown,<br>My mother was a gypsy out of Egypt;<br>And she was gotten with child in a strange way;<br>And I was born in a cold eclipse of the moon,<br>With the future in my eyes as clear as day.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit before the gold-embroidered curtain<br>And think her face is like a wrinkled desert.<br>The crystal burns in lamplight beneath my eyes.<br>A dragon slowly coils on the scaly curtain.<br>Upon a scarlet cloth a white skull lies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Your hand is on the hand that holds three lilies.<br>You will live long, love many times.<br>I see a dark girl here who once betrayed you.<br>I see a shadow of secret crimes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There was a man who came intent to kill you,<br>And hid behind a door and waited for you;<br>There was a woman who smiled at you and lied.<br>There was a golden girl who loved you, begged you,<br>Crawled after you, and died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There is a ghost of murder in your blood-<br>Coming or past, I know not which.<br>And here is danger-a woman with sea-green eyes,<br>And white-skinned as a witch . . .'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The words hiss into me, like raindrops falling<br>On sleepy fire . . . She smiles a meaning smile.<br>Suspicion eats my brain; I ask a question;<br>Something is creeping at me, something vile;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And suddenly on the wall behind her head<br>I see a monstrous shadow strike and spread,<br>The lamp puffs out, a great blow crashes down.<br>I plunge through the curtain, run through dark to the street,<br>And hear swift steps retreat . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shades are drawn, the door is locked behind me.<br>Behind the door I hear a hammer sounding.<br>I walk in a cloud of wonder; I am glad.<br>I mingle among the crowds; my heart is pounding;<br>You do not guess the adventure I have had! . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet you, too, all have had your dark adventures,<br>Your sudden adventures, or strange, or sweet . . .<br>My peril goes out from me, is blown among you.<br>We loiter, dreaming together, along the street.</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>
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Draw three cards, and lay them down,
Rest your palms upon them, stare at the crystal,
And think of time . . . My father was a clown,
My mother was a gypsy out of Egypt;
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