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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381428" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Town Down by the River</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said the Watcher by the Way <br>To the young and the unladen, <br>To the boy and to the maiden, <br>"God be with you both to-day. <br>First your song came ringing, <br>Now you come, you two-- <br>Knowing naught of what you do, <br>Or of what your dreams are bringing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"O you children who go singing <br>To the Town down the River, <br>Where the millions cringe and shiver, <br>Tell me what you know to-day; <br>Tell me how far you are going, <br>Tell me how you find your way. <br>O you children who are dreaming, <br>Tell me what you dream to-day."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"He is old and we have heard him," <br>Said the boy then to the maiden; <br>"He is old and heavy laden <br>With a load we throw away. <br>Care may come to find us, <br>Age may lay us low; <br>Still, we seek the light we know, <br>And the dead we leave behind us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Did he think that he would blind us <br>Into such a small believing <br>As to live without achieving, <br>When the lights have led so far? <br>Let him watch or let him wither,-- <br>Shall he tell us where we are? <br>We know best, who go together, <br>Downward, onward, and so far."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said the Watcher by the Way <br>To the fiery folk that hastened <br>To the loud and the unchastened, <br>"You are strong, I see, to-day. <br>Strength and hope may lead you <br>To the journey's end,-- <br>Each to be the other's friend <br>If the Town should fail to need you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And are ravens there to feed you <br>In the Town down the River, <br>Where the gift appalls the giver <br>And youth hardens day by day? <br>O you brave and you unshaken, <br>Are you truly on your way? <br>And are sirens in the River, <br>That you come so far to-day?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"You are old and we have listened," <br>Said the voice of one who halted; <br>"You are sage and self-exalted, <br>But your way is not our way. <br>You that cannot aid us <br>Give us words to eat. <br>Be assured that they are sweet, <br>And that we are as God made us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Not in vain have you delayed us, <br>Though the river still be calling <br>Through the twilight that is falling <br>And the Town be still so far. <br>By the whirlwind of your wisdom <br>Leagues are lifted as leaves are; <br>But a king without a kingdom <br>Fails us, who have come so far."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said the Watcher by the Way <br>To the slower folk who stumbled, <br>To the weak and the world-humbled, <br>"Tell me how you fare to-day. <br>Some with ardor shaken, <br>All with honor scarred, <br>Do you falter, finding hard <br>The far chance that you have taken?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Or, do you at length awaken <br>To an antic retribution, <br>Goading to a new confusion <br>The drugged hopes of yesterday? <br>O you poor mad men that hobble, <br>Will you not return or stay? <br>Do you trust, you broken people, <br>To a dawn without the day?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"You speak well of what you know not," <br>Muttered one; and then a second: <br>"You have begged, and you have beckoned, <br>But you see us on our way. <br>Who are you to scold us, <br>Knowing what we know? <br>Jeremiah, long ago, <br>Said as much as you have told us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"As we are, then, you behold us: <br>Derelicts of all conditions, <br>Poets, rogues, and sick physicians, <br>Plodding forward from afar; <br>Forward now into the darkness <br>Where the men before us are; <br>Forward, onward, out of grayness, <br>To the light that shone so far."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said the Watcher by the Way <br>To some aged ones who lingered, <br>To the shrunken, the claw-fingered, <br>"So you come for me to-day."-- <br>"Yes, to give you warning; <br>You are old," one said; <br>"You have hairs on your head, <br>Fit for laurel, not for scorning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"From the first of early morning <br>We have toiled along to find you; <br>We, as others, have maligned you, <br>But we need your scorn to-day. <br>By the light that we saw shining, <br>Let us not be lured alway; <br>Let us hear no River calling <br>When to-morrow is to-day."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"But your lanterns are unlighted <br>And the Town is far before you: <br>Let us hasten, I implore you," <br>Said the Watcher by the Way. <br>"Long have I waited, <br>Longer have I known <br>That the Town would have its own, <br>And the call be for the fated.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"In the name of all created. <br>Let us hear no more my brothers; <br>Are we older than all others? <br>Are the planets in our way?"-- <br>"Hark," said one; I hear the River, <br>Calling always, night and day."-- <br>"Forward, then! The lights are shining," <br>Said the Watcher by the Way.</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=381428" data-title="The Town Down by the River de Edwin Arlington Robinson" data-description="I Said the Watcher by the Way To the young and the unladen, To the boy and to the maiden, "God be with you both to-day. First your song came ringing, Now you come, you two-- Knowing naught of what you do, Or of what your dreams are br..."></div> </div> </div>
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