<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Scotland's Winter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill,<br>The sun looks from the hill<br>Helmed in his winter casket,<br>And sweeps his arctic sword across the sky.<br>The water at the mill<br>Sounds more hoarse and dull.<br>The miller's daughter walking by<br>With frozen fingers soldered to her basket<br>Seems to be knocking <br>Upon a hundred leagues of floor<br>With her light heels, and mocking<br>Percy and Douglas dead,<br>And Bruce on his burial bed,<br>Where he lies white as may<br>With wars and leprosy,<br>And all the kings before<br>This land was kingless,<br>And all the singers before<br>This land was songless,<br>This land that with its dead and living waits the Judgement Day.<br>But they, the powerless dead,<br>Listening can hear no more<br>Than a hard tapping on the floor<br>A little overhead<br>Of common heels that do not know<br>Whence they come or where they go<br>And are content<br>With their poor frozen life and shallow banishment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwin+Muir">Edwin Muir</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=381483" data-title="Scotland's Winter de Edwin Muir" data-description="Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill, The sun looks from the hill Helmed in his winter casket, And sweeps his arctic sword across the sky. The water at the mill Sounds more hoarse and dull. The miller's daughter walking by With frozen fin..."></div> </div> </div>

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