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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373673" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The City In The Sea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! Death has reared himself a throne<br> In a strange city lying alone<br> Far down within the dim West,<br> Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best<br> Have gone to their eternal rest.<br> There shrines and palaces and towers<br> (Time-eaten towers that tremble not!)<br> Resemble nothing that is ours.<br> Around, by lifting winds forgot,<br> Resignedly beneath the sky<br> The melancholy waters he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> No rays from the holy heaven come down<br> On the long night-time of that town;<br> But light from out the lurid sea<br> Streams up the turrets silently-<br> Gleams up the pinnacles far and free-<br> Up domes- up spires- up kingly halls-<br> Up fanes- up Babylon-like walls-<br> Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers<br> Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers-<br> Up many and many a marvellous shrine<br> Whose wreathed friezes intertwine<br> The viol, the violet, and the vine.<br> Resignedly beneath the sky<br> The melancholy waters lie.<br> So blend the turrets and shadows there<br> That all seem pendulous in air,<br> While from a proud tower in the town<br> Death looks gigantically down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> There open fanes and gaping graves<br> Yawn level with the luminous waves;<br> But not the riches there that lie<br> In each idol's diamond eye-<br> Not the gaily-jewelled dead<br> Tempt the waters from their bed;<br> For no ripples curl, alas!<br> Along that wilderness of glass-<br> No swellings tell that winds may be<br> Upon some far-off happier sea-<br> No heavings hint that winds have been<br> On seas less hideously serene.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But lo, a stir is in the air!<br> The wave- there is a movement there!<br> As if the towers had thrust aside,<br> In slightly sinking, the dull tide-<br> As if their tops had feebly given<br> A void within the filmy Heaven.<br> The waves have now a redder glow-<br> The hours are breathing faint and low-<br> And when, amid no earthly moans,<br> Down, down that town shall settle hence,<br> Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,<br> Shall do it reverence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Allan+Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a><div class=q>
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 In a strange city lying alone
 Far down within the dim West,
 Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
 Have gone to their eternal rest.
 There shrines and palaces and towers
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