<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391625" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Messenger-Bird</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou art come from the spirits' land, thou bird!<br>Thou art come from the spirits' land!<br>Through the dark pine-grove let thy voice be heard,<br>And tell of the shadowy band!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We know that the bowers are green and fair<br>In the light of that summer shore,<br>And we know that the friends we have lost are there,<br>They are there-and they weep no more!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we know they have quench'd their fever's thirst<br>From the Fountain of Youth ere now,<br>For there must the stream in its freshness burst,<br>Which none may find below!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we know that they will not be lur'd to earth<br>From the land of deathless flowers,<br>By the feast, or the dance, or the song of mirth,<br>Though their hearts were once with ours;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though they sat with us by the night-fire's blaze,<br>And bent with us the bow,<br>And heard the tales of our fathers' days,<br>Which are told to others now!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But tell us, thou bird of the solemn strain!<br>Can those who have lov'd forget?<br>We call-and they answer not again-<br>-Do they love-do they love us yet?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Doth the warrior think of his brother there,<br>And the father of his child?<br>And the chief, of those that were wont to share<br>His wanderings through the wild?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We call them far through the silent night,<br>And they speak not from cave or hill;<br>We know, thou bird! that their land is bright,<br>But say, do they love there still?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Felicia+Dorothea+Hemans">Felicia Dorothea Hemans</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=391625" data-title="The Messenger-Bird de Felicia Dorothea Hemans" data-description="Thou art come from the spirits' land, thou bird! Thou art come from the spirits' land! Through the dark pine-grove let thy voice be heard, And tell of the shadowy band! We know that the bowers are green and fair In the light of that summer shore,..."></div> </div> </div>

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