<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391766" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pre-Existence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I laid me down upon the shore<br>And dreamed a little space;<br>I heard the great waves break and roar;<br>The sun was on my face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My idle hands and fingers brown<br>Played with the pebbles grey;<br>The waves came up, the waves went down,<br>Most thundering and gay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pebbles, they were smooth and round<br>And warm upon my hands,<br>Like little people I had found<br>Sitting among the sands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The grains of sands so shining-small<br>Soft through my fingers ran;<br>The sun shone down upon it all,<br>And so my dream began:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How all of this had been before;<br>How ages far away<br>I lay on some forgotten shore<br>As here I lie to-day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The waves came shining up the sands,<br>As here to-day they shine;<br>And in my pre-pelasgian hands<br>The sand was warm and fine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have forgotten whence I came,<br>Or what my home might be,<br>Or by what strange and savage name<br>I called that thundering sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I only know the sun shone down<br>As still it shines to-day,<br>And in my fingers long and brown<br>The little pebbles lay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frances+Darwin+Cornford">Frances Darwin Cornford</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=391766" data-title="Pre-Existence de Frances Darwin Cornford" data-description="I laid me down upon the shore And dreamed a little space; I heard the great waves break and roar; The sun was on my face. My idle hands and fingers brown Played with the pebbles grey; The waves came up, the waves went down, Most thundering and ga..."></div> </div> </div>

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