<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381257" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lofty Sky</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To-day I want the sky,<br>The tops of the high hills,<br>Above the last man's house,<br>His hedges, and his cows,<br>Where, if I will, I look<br>Down even on sheep and rook,<br>And of all things that move<br>See buzzards only above:-<br>Past all trees, past furze<br>And thorn, where nought deters<br>The desire of the eye<br>For sky, nothing but sky.<br>I sicken of the woods<br>And all the multitudes<br>Of hedge-trees. They are no more<br>Than weeds upon this floor<br>Of the river of air<br>Leagues deep, leagues wide, where<br>I am like a fish that lives<br>In weeds and mud and gives<br>What's above him no thought.<br>I might be a tench for aught<br>That I can do to-day<br>Down on the wealden clay.<br>Even the tench has days<br>When he floats up and plays<br>Among the lily leaves<br>And sees the sky, or grieves<br>Not if he nothing sees:<br>While I, I know that trees<br>Under that lofty sky<br>Are weeds, fields mud, and I<br>Would arise and go far<br>To where the lilies are.</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=381257" data-title="The Lofty Sky de Edward Thomas" data-description="To-day I want the sky, The tops of the high hills, Above the last man's house, His hedges, and his cows, Where, if I will, I look Down even on sheep and rook, And of all things that move See buzzards only above:- Past all trees, past furze And tho..."></div> </div> </div>

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