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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374663" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Blue-Flag In The Bog</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">God had called us, and we came;<br>Our loved Earth to ashes left;<br>Heaven was a neighbor's house,<br>Open to us, bereft.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gay the lights of Heaven showed,<br>And 'twas God who walked ahead;<br>Yet I wept along the road,<br>Wanting my own house instead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wept unseen, unheeded cried,<br>"All you things my eyes have kissed,<br>Fare you well! We meet no more,<br>Lovely, lovely tattered mist!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weary wings that rise and fall<br>All day long above the fire!"—<br>Red with heat was every wall,<br>Rough with heat was every wire—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Fare you well, you little winds<br>That the flying embers chase!<br>Fare you well, you shuddering day,<br>With your hands before your face!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, ah, blackened by strange blight,<br>Or to a false sun unfurled,<br>Now forevermore goodbye,<br>All the gardens in the world!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the windless hills of Heaven,<br>That I have no wish to see,<br>White, eternal lilies stand,<br>By a lake of ebony.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the Earth forevermore<br>Is a place where nothing grows,—<br>Dawn will come, and no bud break;<br>Evening, and no blossom close.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spring will come, and wander slow<br>Over an indifferent land,<br>Stand beside an empty creek,<br>Hold a dead seed in her hand."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">God had called us, and we came,<br>But the blessed road I trod<br>Was a bitter road to me,<br>And at heart I questioned God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Though in Heaven," I said, "be all<br>That the heart would most desire,<br>Held Earth naught save souls of sinners<br>Worth the saving from a fire?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Withered grass,—the wasted growing!<br>Aimless ache of laden boughs!"<br>Little things God had forgotten<br>Called me, from my burning house.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Though in Heaven," I said, "be all<br>That the eye could ask to see,<br>All the things I ever knew<br>Are this blaze in back of me."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Though in Heaven," I said, "be all<br>That the ear could think to lack,<br>All the things I ever knew<br>Are this roaring at my back."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was God who walked ahead,<br>Like a shepherd to the fold;<br>In his footsteps fared the weak,<br>And the weary and the old,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Glad enough of gladness over,<br>Ready for the peace to be,—<br>But a thing God had forgotten<br>Was the growing bones of me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I drew a bit apart,<br>And I lagged a bit behind,<br>And I thought on Peace Eternal,<br>Lest He look into my mind:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I gazed upon the sky,<br>And I thought of Heavenly Rest,—<br>And I slipped away like water<br>Through the fingers of the blest!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All their eyes were fixed on Glory,<br>Not a glance brushed over me;<br>"Alleluia! Alleluia!"<br>Up the road,—and I was free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And my heart rose like a freshet,<br>And it swept me on before,<br>Giddy as a whirling stick,<br>Till I felt the earth once more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the earth was charred and black,<br>Fire had swept from pole to pole;<br>And the bottom of the sea<br>Was as brittle as a bowl;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the timbered mountain-top<br>Was as naked as a skull,—<br>Nothing left, nothing left,<br>Of the Earth so beautiful!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Earth," I said, "how can I leave you?"<br>"You are all I have," I said;<br>"What is left to take my mind up,<br>Living always, and you dead?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Speak!" I said, "Oh, tell me something!<br>Make a sign that I can see!<br>For a keepsake! To keep always!<br>Quick!—before God misses me!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I listened for a voice;—<br>But my heart was all I heard;<br>Not a screech-owl, not a loon,<br>Not a tree-toad said a word.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I waited for a sign;—<br>Coals and cinders, nothing more;<br>And a little cloud of smoke<br>Floating on a valley floor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I peered into the smoke<br>Till it rotted, like a fog:—<br>There, encompassed round by fire,<br>Stood a blue-flag in a bog!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little flames came wading out,<br>Straining, straining towards its stem,<br>But it was so blue and tall<br>That it scorned to think of them!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Red and thirsty were their tongues,<br>As the tongues of wolves must be,<br>But it was so blue and tall—<br>Oh, I laughed, I cried, to see!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All my heart became a tear,<br>All my soul became a tower,<br>Never loved I anything<br>As I loved that tall blue flower!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was all the little boats<br>That had ever sailed the sea,<br>It was all the little books<br>That had gone to school with me;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On its roots like iron claws<br>Rearing up so blue and tall,—<br>It was all the gallant Earth<br>With its back against a wall!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a breath, ere I had breathed,—<br>Oh, I laughed, I cried, to see!—<br>I was kneeling at its side,<br>And it leaned its head on me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Crumbling stones and sliding sand<br>Is the road to Heaven now;<br>Icy at my straining knees<br>Drags the awful under-tow;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon but stepping-stones of dust<br>Will the road to Heaven be,—<br>Father, Son and Holy Ghost,<br>Reach a hand and rescue me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"There—there, my blue-flag flower;<br>Hush—hush—go to sleep;<br>That is only God you hear,<br>Counting up His folded sheep!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lullabye—lullabye—<br>T hat is only God that calls,<br>Missing me, seeking me,<br>Ere the road to nothing falls!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He will set His mighty feet<br>Firmly on the sliding sand;<br>Like a little frightened bird<br>I will creep into His hand;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will tell Him all my grief,<br>I will tell Him all my sin;<br>He will give me half His robe<br>For a cloak to wrap you in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lullabye—lullabye—"Rocks the burnt-out planet free!—<br>Father, Son and Holy Ghost,<br>Reach a hand and rescue me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, the voice of love at last!<br>Lo, at last the face of light!<br>And the whole of His white robe<br>For a cloak against the night!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And upon my heart asleep<br>All the things I ever knew!—<br>"Holds Heaven not some cranny, Lord,<br>For a flower so tall and blue?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All's well and all's well!<br>Gay the lights of Heaven show!<br>In some moist and Heavenly place<br>We will set it out to grow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay">Edna St. Vincent Millay</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=374663" data-title="The Blue-Flag In The Bog de Edna St. Vincent Millay" data-description="God had called us, and we came; Our loved Earth to ashes left; Heaven was a neighbor's house, Open to us, bereft. 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