<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365871" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tallyn Tor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘I’m only the flotsam, jetsam drift<br>Cast up on your bars and beaches, <br>The glittering shift that you can’t resist<br>When viewed from your northern reaches, <br>I didn’t come down in a thunderstorm<br>Or a blast from your heaven’s lightning, <br>But cast ashore from the devil’s maw<br>As the jaws of the storm were tightening.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘You watched from the walls of Tallyn Tor<br>My stars and clouds surround me, <br>The smoke and drift of an ancient shift<br>That will always whirlwind round me.<br>Not even the peace of a lonely beach<br>Could trouble the storm that caught me<br>For I sink or swim in the storm within, <br>Not the eye of the storm that brought me.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Deep in the halls of Tallyn Tor<br>Your hand was the hand to greet me, <br>And during the wintering months of war<br>Did your fevered storms defeat me.<br>If ever the tide should turn, should turn<br>In claiming its own around it, <br>I’ll leave the beach and the lover’s reach<br>As empty as flotsam found it.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">14 March 1975</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=365871" data-title="Tallyn Tor de David Lewis Paget" data-description="‘I’m only the flotsam, jetsam drift Cast up on your bars and beaches, The glittering shift that you can’t resist When viewed from your northern reaches, I didn’t come down in a thunderstorm Or a blast from your heaven’s lightning, But..."></div> </div> </div>

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