<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366065" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bavarian Gentias</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not every man has gentians in his house<br>in soft September, at slow, sad Michaelmas.<br>Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark<br>darkening the daytime, torch-like, with the smoking blueness of Pluto's<br> gloom,<br>ribbed and torch-like, with their blaze of darkness spread blue<br>down flattening into points, flattened under the sweep of white day<br>torch-flower of the blue-smoking darkness, Pluto's dark-blue daze,<br>black lamps from the halls of Dis, burning dark blue,<br>giving off darkness, blue darkness, as Demeter's pale lamps give off blight, lead me then, lead the way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!<br>let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower<br>down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September<br>to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark<br>and Persephone herself is but a voice<br>or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark<br>of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom, among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the lost bride and her groom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+McKee+Wright">David McKee Wright</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=366065" data-title="Bavarian Gentias de David McKee Wright" data-description="Not every man has gentians in his house in soft September, at slow, sad Michaelmas. Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark darkening the daytime, torch-like, with the smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom, ribbed and torch-like, with their blaze ..."></div> </div> </div>

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