<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386650" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>City Visions</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the blind Milton's memory of light, <br>The deaf Beethoven's phantasy of tone, <br>Wroght joys for them surpassing all things known <br>In our restricted sphere of sound and sight,-- <br>So while the glaring streets of brick and stone <br>Vix with heat, noise, and dust from morn till night, <br>I will give rein to Fancy, taking flight <br>From dismal now and here, and dwell alone <br>With new-enfranchised senses. All day long, <br>Think ye 't is I, who sit 'twixt darkened walls, <br>While ye chase beauty over land and sea? <br>Uplift on wings of some rare poet's song <br>Where the wide billow laughs and leaps and falls, <br>I soar cloud-high, free as the winds are free. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who grasps the substance? who 'mid shadows strays? <br>He who within some dark-bright wood reclines, <br>'Twixt sleep and waking, where the needled pines <br>Have cushioned al his couch with soft brown sprays? <br>He notes not how the living water shines, <br>Trembling along the cliff, a flickering haze, <br>Brimming a wine-bright pool, nor lifts his gaze <br>To read the ancient wonders and the signs. <br>Does he possess the actual, or do I, <br>Who paint on air more than his sense receives, <br>The glittering pine-tufts with closed eyes behold, <br>Breathe the strong resinous perfume, see the sky <br>Quiver like azure flame between the leaves, <br>And open unseen gates with key of gold?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Emma+Lazarus">Emma Lazarus</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=386650" data-title="City Visions de Emma Lazarus" data-description="I As the blind Milton's memory of light, The deaf Beethoven's phantasy of tone, Wroght joys for them surpassing all things known In our restricted sphere of sound and sight,-- So while the glaring streets of brick and stone Vix with heat, no..."></div> </div> </div>

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