<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384554" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Response</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said this morning, as I leaned and threw<br>My shutters open to the Spring's surprise,<br>'Tell me, O Earth, how is it that in you<br>Year after year the same fresh feelings rise?<br>How do you keep your young exultant glee?<br>No more those sweet emotions come to me.<br>'I note through all your fissures how the tide<br>Of healthful life goes leaping as of old;<br>Your royal dawns retain their pomp and pride;<br>Your sunsets lose no atom of their gold.<br>How can this wonder be?' My soul's fine ear<br>Leaned, listening, till a small voice answered near:<br>'My days lapse never over into night;<br>My nights encroach not on the rights of dawn.<br>I rush not breathless after some delight;<br>I waste no grief for any pleasure gone.<br>My July noons burn not the entire year.<br>Heart, hearken well!' 'Yes, yes; go on; I hear.'<br>'I do not strive to make my sunsets' gold<br>Pave all the dim and distant realms of space.<br>I do not bid my crimson dawns unfold<br>To lend the midnight a fictitious grace.<br>I break no law, for all God's laws are good.<br>Heart, hast thou heard?' 'Yes, yes; and understood.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</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=384554" data-title="Response de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="I said this morning, as I leaned and threw My shutters open to the Spring's surprise, 'Tell me, O Earth, how is it that in you Year after year the same fresh feelings rise? How do you keep your young exultant glee? No more those sweet emotions com..."></div> </div> </div>

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