<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381392" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Burning Book</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">OR THE CONTENTED METAPHYSICIAN</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>TO the lore of no manner of men <br>Would his vision have yielded <br>When he found what will never again <br>From his vision be shielded,— <br>Though he paid with as much of his life<br>As a nun could have given, <br>And to-night would have been as a knife, <br>Devil-drawn, devil-driven. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For to-night, with his flame-weary eyes <br>On the work he is doing,<br>He considers the tinder that flies <br>And the quick flame pursuing. <br>In the leaves that are crinkled and curled <br>Are his ashes of glory, <br>And what once were an end of the world<br>Is an end of a story. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But he smiles, for no more shall his days <br>Be a toil and a calling <br>For a way to make others to gaze <br>On God’s face without falling.<br>He has come to the end of his words, <br>And alone he rejoices <br>In the choiring that silence affords <br>Of ineffable voices. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To a realm that his words may not reach <br>He may lead none to find him; <br>An adept, and with nothing to teach, <br>He leaves nothing behind him. <br>For the rest, he will have his release, <br>And his embers, attended<br>By the large and unclamoring peace <br>Of a dream that is ended.</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=381392" data-title="The Burning Book de Edwin Arlington Robinson" data-description="OR THE CONTENTED METAPHYSICIAN TO the lore of no manner of men Would his vision have yielded When he found what will never again From his vision be shielded,— Though he paid with as much of his life As a nun could have given, And to-night..."></div> </div> </div>

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