<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365732" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From A Blue Cloud</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">From a blue cloud at the two o’clock<br>And out of the rain, <br>With a long step and a swift nod<br>The master came.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Swinging behind him a painted box<br>In an old and tattered bag, <br>He watched my eye on the mystery box<br>And sat on a damson rag.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under the pleat of his purple cloak<br>Was the Queen of petty spades, <br>‘We’re off to the end of the rainbow, Jack<br>To the long, black end of days.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ducking the light of the morning star<br>We hid in a tulip bed, <br>But caught the beam in a bottle-jar<br>To light the way ahead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The master took some tinsel foil<br>To shake on the fairy phlox, <br>He said: ‘You can have the Queen of Spades<br>Or the painted mystery box.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I chose the Queen, who dredged a pit<br>To place the box within, <br>He tipped his hat with a weary nod, <br>‘I’m on my way again.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now often I notice the Queen of Spades<br>Look long and long at me, <br>With a sad smile, she whispers on: <br>‘Oh what, and what might we? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While I still watch for the blue cloud<br>And the two o’clock bus, <br>In hopes that he and the mystery box….<br>He never does! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">12 September 1983</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</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=365732" data-title="From A Blue Cloud de David Lewis Paget" data-description="From a blue cloud at the two o’clock And out of the rain, With a long step and a swift nod The master came. Swinging behind him a painted box In an old and tattered bag, He watched my eye on the mystery box And sat on a damson rag. Under the..."></div> </div> </div>

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