<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358742" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ionian</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just because we've torn their statues down,<br>and cast them from their temples,<br>doesn't for a moment mean the gods are dead.<br>Land of Ionia, they love you yet,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">their spirits still remember you.<br>When an August morning breaks upon you<br>a vigour from their lives stabs through your air;<br>and sometimes an ethereal and youthful form<br>in swiftest passage, indistinct,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">passes up above your hills.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</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=358742" data-title="Ionian de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="Just because we've torn their statues down, and cast them from their temples, doesn't for a moment mean the gods are dead. Land of Ionia, they love you yet, their spirits still remember you. When an August morning breaks upon you a vigour from th..."></div> </div> </div>

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