<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381209" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Health</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Four miles at a leap, over the dark hollow land,<br>To the frosted steep of the down and its junipers black,<br>Travels my eye with equal ease and delight:<br>And scarce could my body leap four yards.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the best and the worst of it -<br>Never to know,<br>Yet to imagine gloriously, pure health.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To-day, had I suddenly health,<br>I could not satisfy the desire of my heart<br>Unless health abated it,<br>So beautiful is the air in its softness and clearness, while<br>Spring<br>Promises all and fails in nothing as yet;<br>And what blue and what white is I never knew<br>Before I saw this sky blessing the land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For had I health I could not ride or run or fly<br>So far or so rapidly over the land<br>As I desire: I should reach Wiltshire tired;<br>I should have changed my mind before I could be in Wales.<br>I could not love; I could not command love.<br>beauty would still be far off<br>However many hills I climbed over;<br>Peace would still be farther.<br>Maybe I should not count it anything<br>To leap these four miles with the eye;<br>And either I should not be filled almost to bursting with desire,<br>Or with my power desire would still keep pace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet I am not satisfied<br>Even with knowing I never could be satisfied.<br>With health and all the power that lies<br>In maiden beauty, poet and warrior,<br>In Caesar, Shakespeare, Alcibiades,<br>Mazeppa, Leonardo, Michelangelo,<br>In any maiden whose smile is lovelier<br>Than sunlight upon dew,<br>I could not be as the wagtail running up and down<br>The warm tiles of the roof slope, twittering<br>Happily and sweetly as if the sun itself<br>Extracted the song<br>As the hand makes sparks from the fur of a cat:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I could not be as the sun.<br>Nor should I be content to be<br>As little as the bird or as mighty as the sun.<br>For the bird knows not the sun,<br>And the sun regards not the bird.<br>But I am almost proud to love both bird and sun,<br>Though scarce this Spring could my body leap four yards.</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=381209" data-title="Health de Edward Thomas" data-description="Four miles at a leap, over the dark hollow land, To the frosted steep of the down and its junipers black, Travels my eye with equal ease and delight: And scarce could my body leap four yards. This is the best and the worst of it - Never to know, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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