<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384662" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Optimist</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fields were bleak and sodden. Not a wing<br>Or note enlivened the depressing wood, <br>A soiled and sullen, stubborn snowdrift stood<br>Beside the roadway. Winds came muttering<br>Of storms to be, and brought the chilly sting<br>Of icebergs in their breath. Stalled cattle mooed<br>Forth plaintive pleadings for the earth's green food.<br>No gleam, no hint of hope in anything.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sky was blank and ashen, like the face<br>Of some poor wretch who drains life's cup too fast.<br>Yet, swaying to and fro, as if to fling<br>About chilled Nature its lithe arms of grace, <br>Smiling with promise in the wintry blast, <br>The optimistic Willow spoke of spring.</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=384662" data-title="The Optimist de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="The fields were bleak and sodden. Not a wing Or note enlivened the depressing wood, A soiled and sullen, stubborn snowdrift stood Beside the roadway. Winds came muttering Of storms to be, and brought the chilly sting Of icebergs in their breath. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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