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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365787" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Maps And Charts</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For part of your voyage, Captain<br>I was there at the helm with you, <br>So young, and the world had flowered, <br>I caught my breath at the view; <br>But you stood grim, determined<br>And saw what I could not see, <br>You spoke of the storms and tempests<br>That I had coming to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your words took shape, exploded, <br>Then burst at my head and heart<br>Like shooting stars in the sunset, <br>Like embers, glowed in the dark, <br>I lost so much of their meaning, <br>Ignored so much that was said<br>Your thoughts flashed bright on the water<br>Then dimmed, went out – despaired.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You tugged at my understanding<br>Set course for the verities, <br>I stood for so long behind you<br>That you merged with the skies and seas, <br>The breeze snapped long at the mizzen<br>The spinnaker billowed and flared, <br>I questioned the ship’s direction<br>But I doubt if you even heard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We parted one brave morning<br>When I took a ship of my own, <br>Then you drove alone at the sunset<br>While I made sail to roam, <br>We’d each glimpse sights of the other<br>At sea, and in seaports new, <br>When we’d spark our flints together<br>As my understanding grew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then my storms and tempests claimed me<br>As you’d said they would at the start, <br>And sparks came back of your warnings<br>As I set my course by the stars, <br>And I tried to grasp your secrets<br>That had glimmered and glowed in vain, <br>But you’d set a course for the sunset<br>And never came back again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So now in my darkened cabin<br>I pore over maps and charts<br>And I set each course for the helmsman<br>To look for your many parts, <br>I know that the journey shortens<br>As the planets wheel and turn, <br>And you wait for me at the sunset<br>Where our maps and charts are burned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">26 December 1994</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>
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I was there at the helm with you, 
So young, and the world had flowered, 
I caught my breath at the view; 
But you stood grim, determined
And saw what I could not see, 
You spoke of the storms and tempests
That I h..."></div>
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