<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373444" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Permanence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Set within a desert lone,<br>Circled by an arid sea,<br>Stands a figure carved in stone,<br>Where a fountain used to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two abraded, pleading hands<br>Held below a shapeless mouth,<br>Human-like the fragment stands,<br>Tortured by perpetual drouth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once the form was drenched with spray,<br>Deluged with the rainbow flushes;<br>Surplus water dashed away<br>To the lotus and the rushes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time was clothed in rippling fashion,.<br>Opulence of light and air,<br>Beauty changing into passion<br>Every hour and everywhere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the yearning of that race<br>Was for something deep and tender,<br>Life replete with power, with grace,<br>Touched with vision and with splendour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now no rain dissolves and cools,<br>Dew is even as a dream,<br>The enticing far-off pools<br>In a mirage only seem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the traces that remain,<br>Of the longings of that land,<br>Are two hands that plead in vain<br>Filled with burning sand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Duncan+Campbell+Scott">Duncan Campbell Scott</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=373444" data-title="Permanence de Duncan Campbell Scott" data-description="Set within a desert lone, Circled by an arid sea, Stands a figure carved in stone, Where a fountain used to be. Two abraded, pleading hands Held below a shapeless mouth, Human-like the fragment stands, Tortured by perpetual drouth. Once the form..."></div> </div> </div>

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