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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fragment II</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The light of day was fading in the west,<br>The smoke no more from village chimneys curled,<br>Nor voice of man, nor bark of dog was heard;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When she, obedient to Love's rendezvous,<br>Had reached the middle of a plain, than which<br>No other more bewitching could be found.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The moon on every side her lustre shed,<br>And all in robes of silver light arrayed<br>The trees with which the place was garlanded.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rustling boughs were murmuring to the wind,<br>And, blending with the plaintive nightingale,<br>A rivulet poured forth its sweet lament.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sea shone in the distance, and the fields<br>And groves; and slowly rising, one by one,<br>The summits of the mountains were revealed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In quiet shade the sombre valley lay,<br>While all the little hills around were clothed<br>With the soft lustre of the dewy moon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The maiden kept the silent, lonely path,<br>And gently passing o'er her face, she felt<br>The motion of the perfume-laden breeze.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If she were happy, it were vain to ask;<br>The scene delighted her, and the delight<br>Her heart was promising, was greater still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How swift your flight, O lovely hours serene!<br>No other pleasure here below endures,<br>Or lingers with us long, save hope alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The night began to change, and dark became<br>The face of heaven, that was so beautiful,<br>And all her pleasure now was turned to fear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An angry cloud, precursor of the storm,<br>Behind the mountains rose, and still increased,<br>Till moon or star no longer could be seen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She saw it spreading upon every side,<br>And by degrees ascending through the air,<br>And now with its black mantle covering all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The scanty light more faint and faint became;<br>The wind, meanwhile, was rising in the grove,<br>That on the farther side the spot enclosed;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, every moment, was more boisterous;<br>Till every bird, awaking in its fright,<br>Amidst the trembling leaves was fluttering.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cloud, increasing still, unto the coast<br>Descended, so that one extremity<br>The mountains touched, the other touched the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now from out its black and hollow womb,<br>The pattering rain-drops, falling fast, were heard,<br>The sound increasing as the cloud drew near.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And round her now the glancing lightning flashed<br>In fearful mood, and made her shut her eyes;<br>The ground was black, the air a mass of flame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her trembling knees could scarce her weight sustain;<br>The thunder roared with a continuous sound,<br>Like torrent, plunging headlong from the cliff.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At times she paused, the dismal scene to view,<br>In blank dismay; then on she ran again,<br>Her hair and clothes all streaming in the wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cruel wind beat hard against her breast,<br>And rushing fiercely, with its angry breath,<br>The cold drops dashed, remorseless, in her face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The thunder, like a beast, assaulted her,<br>With terrible, unintermitting roar;<br>And more and more the rain and tempest raged.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And from all sides in wild confusion flew<br>The dust and leaves, the branches and the stones,<br>With hideous tumult, inconceivable.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her weary, blinded eyes now covering,<br>And folding close her clothes against her breast,<br>She through the storm her fearful path pursued.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now the lightning glared so in her face,<br>That, overcome by fright at last, she went<br>No farther, and her heart within her sank;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And back she turned. And, even as she turned,<br>The lightning ceased to flash, the air was dark,<br>The thunder's voice was hushed, the wind stood still,<br>And all was silent round, and she,--at rest!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Count+Giacomo+Leopardi">Count Giacomo Leopardi</a><div class=q>
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The smoke no more from village chimneys curled,
Nor voice of man, nor bark of dog was heard;

When she, obedient to Love's rendezvous,
Had reached the middle of a plain, than which
No other more bewitching ..."></div>
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