<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Map</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Land lies in water; it is shadowed green.<br>Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges<br>showing the line of long sea-weeded ledges<br>where weeds hang to the simple blue from green.<br>Or does the land lean down to lift the sea from under,<br>drawing it unperturbed around itself?<br>Along the fine tan sandy shelf<br>is the land tugging at the sea from under?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shadow of Newfoundland lies flat and still.<br>Labrador's yellow, where the moony Eskimo<br>has oiled it. We can stroke these lovely bays,<br>under a glass as if they were expected to blossom,<br>or as if to provide a clean cage for invisible fish.<br>The names of seashore towns run out to sea,<br>the names of cities cross the neighboring mountains<br>-the printer here experiencing the same excitement<br>as when emotion too far exceeds its cause.<br>These peninsulas take the water between thumb and finger<br>like women feeling for the smoothness of yard-goods.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mapped waters are more quiet than the land is,<br>lending the land their waves' own conformation:<br>and Norway's hare runs south in agitation,<br>profiles investigate the sea, where land is.<br>Are they assigned, or can the countries pick their colors?<br>-What suits the character or the native waters best.<br>Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.<br>More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Bishop">Elizabeth Bishop</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=384064" data-title="The Map de Elizabeth Bishop" data-description="Land lies in water; it is shadowed green. Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges showing the line of long sea-weeded ledges where weeds hang to the simple blue from green. Or does the land lean down to lift the sea from under, drawing it unpe..."></div> </div> </div>

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