<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374339" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Survival</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To-day’s house makes to-morrow’s road;<br>I knew these heaps of stone<br>When they were walls of grace and might,<br>The country’s honour, art’s delight<br>That over fountain’d silence show’d<br>Fame’s final bastion.<br>Inheritance has found fresh work,<br>Disunion union breeds;<br>Beauty the strong, its difference lost,<br>Has matter fit for flood and frost.<br>Here’s the true blood that will not shirk<br>Life’s new-commanding needs.<br>With curious costly zeal, O man,<br>Raise orrery and ode;<br>How shines your tower, the only one<br>Of that especial site and stone!<br>And even the dream’s confusion can<br>Sustain to-morrow’s road.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edmund+Blunden">Edmund Blunden</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=374339" data-title="The Survival de Edmund Blunden" data-description="To-day’s house makes to-morrow’s road; I knew these heaps of stone When they were walls of grace and might, The country’s honour, art’s delight That over fountain’d silence show’d Fame’s final bastion. Inheritance has found fresh wor..."></div> </div> </div>

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