<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365876" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Abbey</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">No longer knowing what or who I am<br>I turn, <br>This way and that for meaning, <br>Finding none, <br>But trapped within the body of a man<br>I know not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The child I knew, and he remained supreme<br>Until<br>This beard turned grey, <br>The joints began to stiffen, <br>The dim reflections twisted to betray<br>One once thought lost to heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of all my time I have so little left, <br>And that exhausted, spent –<br>Squandered by him who thought<br>There was no cost in spending; <br>No giving up, no Lent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From all to caul! Is this what we<br>Traverse, <br>Lost in our perversity and will, <br>Who spill our means, deny our source<br>Demean what knowledge shapes our course.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A shell remains, like some deserted Abbey; <br>And the gulls fly<br>Where monks once thought their spells, <br>And I….<br>I start at silences<br>Where long shadows, cowled, slink<br>Mutter at my carrells.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1 June 1985</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=365876" data-title="The Abbey de David Lewis Paget" data-description="No longer knowing what or who I am I turn, This way and that for meaning, Finding none, But trapped within the body of a man I know not. The child I knew, and he remained supreme Until This beard turned grey, The joints began to stiffen, The..."></div> </div> </div>

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