<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359116" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>That Bright Chimeric Beast</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">That bright chimeric beast<br>Conceived yet never born,<br>Save in the poet's breast,<br>The white-flanked unicorn,<br>Never may be shaken<br>From his solitude;<br>Never may be taken<br>In any earthly wood. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That bird forever feathered,<br>Of its new self the sire,<br>After aeons weathered,<br>Reincarnate by fire,<br>Falcon may not nor eagle<br>Swerve from his eyrie,<br>Nor any crumb inveigle<br>Down to an earthly tree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That fish of the dread regime<br>Invented to become<br>The fable and the dream<br>Of the Lord's aquarium,<br>Leviathan, the jointed<br>Harpoon was never wrought<br>By which the Lord's anointed<br>Will suffer to be caught.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bird of the deathless breast,<br>Fish of the frantic fin,<br>That bright chimeric beast<br>Flashing the argent skin,--<br>If beasts like these you'd harry,<br>Plumb then the poet's dream;<br>Make it your aviary,<br>Make it your wood and stream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There only shall the swish<br>Be heard of the regal fish;<br>There like a golden knife<br>Dart the feet of the unicorn,<br>And there, death brought to life,<br>The dead bird be reborn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Countee+Cullen">Countee Cullen</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=359116" data-title="That Bright Chimeric Beast de Countee Cullen" data-description="That bright chimeric beast Conceived yet never born, Save in the poet's breast, The white-flanked unicorn, Never may be shaken From his solitude; Never may be taken In any earthly wood. That bird forever feathered, Of its new self the sire, Afte..."></div> </div> </div>

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