<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384673" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Room Beneath the Rafters</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes when I have dropped asleep, <br>Draped in soft luxurious gloom, <br>Across my drowsy mind will creep <br>The memory of another room, <br>Where resinous knots in roofboards made <br>A frescoing of light and shade, <br>And sighing poplars brushed their leaves <br>Against the humbly sloping eaves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again I fancy in my dreams <br>I'm lying in my trundle-bed. <br>I seem to see the bare old beams <br>And unhewn rafters overhead; <br>The hornet's shrill falsetto hum <br>I hear again, and see him come <br>Forth from his mud-walled hanging house, <br>Dressed in his black and yellow blouse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There, summer dawns, in sleep I stirred, <br>And wove into my fair dream's woof <br>The chattering of a martin bird, <br>Or rain-drops pattering on the roof. <br>Or, half awake, and half in fear, <br>I saw the spider spinning near <br>His pretty castle, where the fly <br>Should come to ruin by and by.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there I fashioned from my brain <br>Youth's shining structures in the air, <br>I did not wholly build in vain, <br>For some were lasting, firm and fair. <br>And I am one who lives to say <br>My life has held more good than gray, <br>And that the splendor of the real <br>Surpassed my early dream's ideal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But still I love to wander back <br>To that old time and that old place; <br>To thread my way o'er Memory's track, <br>And catch the early morning's grace <br>In that quaint room beneath the rafter, <br>That echoed to my childish laughter; <br>To dream again the dreams that grew <br>More beautiful as they came true.</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=384673" data-title="The Room Beneath the Rafters de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Sometimes when I have dropped asleep, Draped in soft luxurious gloom, Across my drowsy mind will creep The memory of another room, Where resinous knots in roofboards made A frescoing of light and shade, And sighing poplars brushed their leav..."></div> </div> </div>

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