<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365860" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Static</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stark patterns rent by winter storms<br>Sweep the blood-red sky, <br>By haunted mills and frozen rills<br>The static crackles by; <br>But not a stone stands on a stone<br>To halt its whispered sigh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through twisted steel and molten glass<br>The signal spends its force<br>Then mutters on through blackened wheat, <br>Bent on its wayward course; <br>But none may hear the crackling tear<br>That shimmers through the gorse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twice round the earth the signal runs<br>To seek that whip of steel, <br>The midnight radio of man<br>Has ceased to hear or feel, <br>And silence reigns, where once had seen<br>The skirling of the reel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In some deep water-filling ditch<br>Lost in a ravaged land, <br>The signal finds a radio<br>Clutched in a dead man’s hand; <br>And crackles static through its leads: <br>‘I have returned, for man! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">9 July 1978</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=365860" data-title="Static de David Lewis Paget" data-description="Stark patterns rent by winter storms Sweep the blood-red sky, By haunted mills and frozen rills The static crackles by; But not a stone stands on a stone To halt its whispered sigh. Through twisted steel and molten glass The signal spends its f..."></div> </div> </div>

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