<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37821" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dover Beach</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sea is calm to-night.<br>The tide is full, the moon lies fair<br>Upon the straits;—on the French coast the light<br>Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,<br>Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.<br>Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!<br>Only, from the long line of spray<br>Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land,<br>Listen! you hear the grating roar<br>Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,<br>At their return, up the high strand,<br>Begin, and cease, and then again begin,<br>With tremulous cadence slow, and bring<br>The eternal note of sadness in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sophocles long ago<br>Heard it on the Ægæan, and it brought<br>Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow<br>Of human misery; we<br>Find also in the sound a thought,<br>Hearing it by this distant northern sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Sea of Faith<br>Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore<br>Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.<br>But now I only hear<br>Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,<br>Retreating, to the breath<br>Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear<br>And naked shingles of the world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, love, let us be true<br>To one another! for the world, which seems<br>To lie before us like a land of dreams,<br>So various, so beautiful, so new,<br>Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,<br>Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;<br>And we are here as on a darkling plain<br>Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,<br>Where ignorant armies clash by night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Arnold">Matthew Arnold</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=37821" data-title="Dover Beach de Matthew Arnold" data-description="The sea is calm to-night./The tide is full, the moon lies fair/Upon the straits;—on the French coast the light/Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,/Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay./Come to the window, sweet is the night-..."></div> </div> </div>

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