<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373826" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Isaiah Beethoven</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They told me I had three months to live,<br>So I crept to Bernadotte,<br>And sat by the mill for hours and hours<br>Where the gathered waters deeply moving<br>Seemed not to move:<br>O world, that's you!<br>You are but a widened place in the river<br>Where Life looks down and we rejoice for her<br>Mirrored in us, and so we dream<br>And turn away, but when again<br>We look for the face, behold the low-lands<br>And blasted cotton-wood trees where we empty<br>Into the larger stream!<br>But here by the mill the castled clouds<br>Mocked themselves in the dizzy water;<br>And over its agate floor at night<br>The flame of the moon ran under my eyes<br>Amid a forest stillness broken<br>By a flute in a hut on the hill.<br>At last when I came to lie in bed<br>Weak and in pain, with the dreams about me,<br>The soul of the river had entered my soul,<br>And the gathered power of my soul was moving<br>So swiftly it seemed to be at rest<br>Under cities of cloud and under<br>Spheres of silver and changing worlds --<br>Until I saw a flash of trumpets<br>Above the battlements over Time!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</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=373826" data-title="Isaiah Beethoven de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="They told me I had three months to live, So I crept to Bernadotte, And sat by the mill for hours and hours Where the gathered waters deeply moving Seemed not to move: O world, that's you! You are but a widened place in the river Where Life looks d..."></div> </div> </div>

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