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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365932" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fairy Light</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A light appeared on the darkest hill, <br>The girl fell once, and was left behind, <br>I caught her arm and we crossed the rill: <br>‘I can’t go on - I think I’m blind.’<br>‘We’ve all been blind to the things that count<br>But there’s the light - if you’ll follow me<br>We may be able to sight the truth, <br>And catch a glimpse of eternity.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The light had pranced by the farmer's gate, <br>Followed the stony lane along, <br>Leapt a thicket of tangled thorns, <br>Flashed and fluttered, and bounded on.<br>‘It’s only a lonely firefly, <br>A torch, or maybe a will-o-wisp, ’<br>She clutched her leg and she gave a cry, <br>I left her there in the morning mist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘I must go on! ’ I could hear the words<br>The wind had snatched at my shallow breath, <br>‘To stay is worse than to venture on, <br>For standing still is a living death.’<br>I took the hill like a man possessed<br>And clawed a way through the cloying weed, <br>Prayed and whispered and fought for breath<br>To follow the light of my driving need.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The light had stopped at the stony crest<br>To turn its wavering glow on me, <br>I caught it fast in my fevered hand<br>And felt the light spread instantly.<br>The hill erupted in seas and stars, <br>The heavens wheeled and whirled above, <br>I ceased to be; but whispered ‘Why? ’<br>A word, in answer, whispered – ‘Love! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But love like this was not content, <br>Rather a pit of burning pain, <br>Only a well of innocence<br>Could blend unhurt in the light’s refrain.<br>Reflecting the inner glow of love<br>The great creation wheeled in grace<br>While I stood dark and shadow-formed, <br>Apart - as one of the human race! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They found me there at the break of day; <br>The girl had only a line to tell: <br>‘He must have suffered a stroke’, she said, <br>‘His face was pale, and then he fell.’<br>She didn’t mention the fairy light<br>We’d chased forever across the land; <br>The girl was lucky - I lost my sight, <br>And walk the world with a withered hand! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">3 February 1979</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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The girl fell once, and was left behind, 
I caught her arm and we crossed the rill: 
‘I can’t go on - I think I’m blind.’
‘We’ve all been blind to the things that count
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