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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358638" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The House Of Dust: Part 03: 05: Melody In A Restaurant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cigarette-smoke loops and slides above us,<br>Dipping and swirling as the waiter passes;<br>You strike a match and stare upon the flame.<br>The tiny fire leaps in your eyes a moment,<br>And dwindles away as silently as it came.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This melody, you say, has certain voices—<br>They rise like nereids from a river, singing,<br>Lift white faces, and dive to darkness again.<br>Wherever you go you bear this river with you:<br>A leaf falls,—and it flows, and you have pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So says the tune to you—but what to me?<br>What to the waiter, as he pours your coffee,<br>The violinist who suavely draws his bow?<br>That man, who folds his paper, overhears it.<br>A thousand dreams revolve and fall and flow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some one there is who sees a virgin stepping<br>Down marble stairs to a deep tomb of roses:<br>At the last moment she lifts remembering eyes.<br>Green leaves blow down. The place is checked with shadows.<br>A long-drawn murmur of rain goes down the skies.<br>And oaks are stripped and bare, and smoke with lightning:<br>And clouds are blown and torn upon high forests,<br>And the great sea shakes its walls.<br>And then falls silence . . . And through long silence falls<br>This melody once more:<br>'Down endless stairs she goes, as once before.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So says the tune to him—but what to me?<br>What are the worlds I see?<br>What shapes fantastic, terrible dreams? . . .<br>I go my secret way, down secret alleys;<br>My errand is not so simple as it seems.</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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You strike a match and stare upon the flame.
The tiny fire leaps in your eyes a moment,
And dwindles away as silently as it came.

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