<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381187" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ambition</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unless it was that day I never knew<br>Ambition. After a night of frost, before<br>The March sun brightened and the South-west blew,<br>Jackdaws began to shout and float and soar<br>Already, and one was racing straight and high<br>Alone, shouting like a black warrior<br>Challenges and menaces to the wide sky.<br>With loud long laughter then a woodpecker<br>Ridiculed the sadness of the owl's last cry.<br>And through the valley where all the folk astir<br>Made only plumes of pearly smoke to tower<br>Over dark trees and white meadows happier<br>Than was Elysium in that happy hour,<br>A train that roared along raised after it<br>And carried with it a motionless white bower<br>Of purest cloud, from end to end close-knit,<br>So fair it touched the roar with silence. Time<br>Was powerless while that lasted. I could sit<br>And think I had made the loveliness of prime,<br>Breathed its life into it and were its lord,<br>And no mind lived save this 'twixt clouds and rime.<br>Omnipotent was I, nor even deplored<br>That I did nothing. But the end fell like a bell:<br>The bower was scattered; far off the train roared.<br>But if this was ambition I cannot tell.<br>What 'twas ambition for I know not well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+Thomas">Edward Thomas</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=381187" data-title="Ambition de Edward Thomas" data-description="Unless it was that day I never knew Ambition. After a night of frost, before The March sun brightened and the South-west blew, Jackdaws began to shout and float and soar Already, and one was racing straight and high Alone, shouting like a black wa..."></div> </div> </div>

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