<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37951" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Noonday Rest</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Calmer than midnight's deepest hush<br> Is the sun-bright Summer nooning,<br>With its cloudy shadows seeking rest,<br> That fall on the hillside swooning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great Night with its solemn starry eyes,<br> Over Day's gate asks us whither<br>We go, what our password is,<br> To the camp beyond the river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But sunny Noon with its sleepy smile<br> Ripples the grain field over,<br>Without a thought of the silent graves<br> That may lie beneath the clover.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Knee-deep the drowsy cattle stand<br> In the water's golden glimmer,<br>While berry bush and bramble spray<br> Along the hot wall shimmer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The plowshare glitters in the sun<br> Through murdered daisies clinging:<br>The nested birds leave busy bees<br> To do the noonday singing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bright Noon no eager question asks,<br> But like an old nurse story<br>old as she holds us on her breast,<br> Croons soft of love and glory.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The weary plowman's lazy length<br> Lies in the shadow narrow,<br>That clings about the haystack foot,<br> Careless as guarded sparrow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, peaceful hour of Summer Noon!<br> Life has its midnight slumber;<br>Has it no noonday rest for us,<br> When cares shall cease to cumber?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ethel+Lynn+Beers">Ethel Lynn Beers</a> from <i>All Quiet along the Potomac and other poems</i><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=37951" data-title="Noonday Rest de Ethel Lynn Beers" data-description="Calmer than midnight's deepest hush/ Is the sun-bright Summer nooning,/With its cloudy shadows seeking rest,/ That fall on the hillside swooning./Great Night with its solemn starry eyes,/ Over Day's gate asks us whither/We go, what our password is..."></div> </div> </div>

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