<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374305" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Pole Star</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">BEFORE the clepsydra had bound the days<br>Man tethered Change to his fixed star, and said:<br>'The elder races, that long since are dead,<br>Marched by that light; it swerves not from its base<br>Though all the worlds about it wax and fade.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When Egypt saw it, fast in reeling spheres,<br>Her Pyramids shaft-centred on its ray<br>She reared and said: 'Long as this star holds sway<br>In uninvaded ether, shall the years<br>Revere my monuments - ' and went her way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The Pyramids abide; but through the shaft<br>That held the polar pivot, eye to eye,<br>Look now - blank nothingness! As though Change laughed<br>At man's presumption and his puny craft,<br>The star has slipped its leash and roams the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yet could the immemorial piles be swung<br>A skyey hair's breadth from their rooted base,<br>Back to the central anchorage of space,<br>Ah, then again, as when the race was young,<br>Should they behold the beacon of the race!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Of old men said: 'The Truth is there: we rear<br>Our faith full-centred on it. It was known<br>Thus of the elders who foreran us here,<br>Mapped out its circuit in the shifting sphere,<br>And found it, 'mid mutation, fixed alone.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Change laughs again, again the sky is cold,<br>And down that fissure now no star-beam glides.<br>Yet they whose sweep of vision grows not old<br>Still at the central point of space behold<br>Another pole-star: for the Truth abides.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edith+Wharton">Edith Wharton</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=374305" data-title="The Old Pole Star de Edith Wharton" data-description="BEFORE the clepsydra had bound the days Man tethered Change to his fixed star, and said: 'The elder races, that long since are dead, Marched by that light; it swerves not from its base Though all the worlds about it wax and fade.' When Egypt saw..."></div> </div> </div>

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