<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381390" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Altar</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alone, remote, nor witting where I went,<br>I found an altar builded in a dream— <br>A fiery place, whereof there was a gleam <br>So swift, so searching, and so eloquent <br>Of upward promise, that love’s murmur, blent<br>With sorrow’s warning, gave but a supreme <br>Unending impulse to that human stream <br>Whose flood was all for the flame’s fury bent. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! I said,—the world is in the wrong. <br>But the same quenchless fever of unrest<br>That thrilled the foremost of that martyred throng <br>Thrilled me, and I awoke … and was the same <br>Bewildered insect plunging for the flame <br>That burns, and must burn somehow for the best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwin+Arlington+Robinson">Edwin Arlington Robinson</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=381390" data-title="The Altar de Edwin Arlington Robinson" data-description="Alone, remote, nor witting where I went, I found an altar builded in a dream— A fiery place, whereof there was a gleam So swift, so searching, and so eloquent Of upward promise, that love’s murmur, blent With sorrow’s warning, gave but a ..."></div> </div> </div>

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