<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386485" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I see around me tombstones grey</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see around me tombstones grey<br>Stretching their shadows far away.<br>Beneath the turf my footsteps tread<br>Lie low and lone the silent dead -<br>Beneath the turf - beneath the mould -<br>Forever dark, forever cold -<br>And my eyes cannot hold the tears<br>That memory hoards from vanished years<br>For Time and Death and Mortal pain<br>Give wounds that will not heal again -<br>Let me remember half the woe<br>I've seen and heard and felt below,<br>And Heaven itself - so pure and blest,<br>Could never give my spirit rest -<br>Sweet land of light! thy children fair<br>Know nought akin to our despair -<br>Nor have they felt, nor can they tell<br>What tenants haunt each mortal cell,<br>What gloomy guests we hold within -<br>Torments and madness, tears and sin!<br>Well - may they live in ectasy<br>Their long eternity of joy;<br>At least we would not bring them down<br>With us to weep, with us to groan,<br>No - Earth would wish no other sphere<br>To taste her cup of sufferings drear;<br>She turns from Heaven with a careless eye<br>And only mourns that we must die!<br>Ah mother, what shall comfort thee<br>In all this boundless misery?<br>To cheer our eager eyes a while<br>We see thee smile; how fondly smile!<br>But who reads not through that tender glow<br>Thy deep, unutterable woe:<br>Indeed no dazzling land above<br>Can cheat thee of thy children's love.<br>We all, in life's departing shine,<br>Our last dear longings blend with thine;<br>And struggle still and strive to trace<br>With clouded gaze, thy darling face.<br>We would not leave our native home<br>For any world beyond the Tomb.<br>No - rather on thy kindly breast<br>Let us be laid in lasting rest;<br>Or waken but to share with thee<br>A mutual immortality -</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Emily+Jane+Bront%C3%AB">Emily Jane Brontë</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=386485" data-title="I see around me tombstones grey de Emily Jane Brontë" data-description="I see around me tombstones grey Stretching their shadows far away. Beneath the turf my footsteps tread Lie low and lone the silent dead - Beneath the turf - beneath the mould - Forever dark, forever cold - And my eyes cannot hold the tears That me..."></div> </div> </div>

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