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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393074" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Burden of Time</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the seas and mountains were brought forth,<br>I reigned. I hung the universe in space,<br>I capped earth's poles with ice to South and North,<br>And set the moving tides their bounds and place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I smoothed the granite mountains with my hand,<br>My fingers gave the continents their form;<br>I rent the heavens and loosed upon the land<br>The fury of the whirlwind and the storm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stretched the dark sea like a nether sky<br>Fronting the stars between the ice-clad zones;<br>I gave the deep his thunder; the Most High<br>Knows well the voice that shakes His mountain thrones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I trod the ocean caverns black as night,<br>And silent as the bounds of outer space,<br>And where great peaks rose darkly towards the light<br>I planted life to root and grow apace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then through a stillness deeper than the grave's,<br>The coral spires rose slowly one by one,<br>Until the white shafts pierced the upper waves<br>And shone like silver in the tropic sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ploughed with glaciers down the mountain glen,<br>And graved the iron shore with stream and tide;<br>I gave the bird her nest, the lion his den,<br>The snake long jung~le-grass wherein to hide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In lonely gorge and over hill and plain,<br>I sowed the giant forests of the world;<br>The great earth like a human heart in pain<br>Has quivered with the meteors I have hurled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I plunged whole continents beneath the deep,<br>And left them sepulchred a million years;<br>I called, and lo, the drowned lands rose from sleep,<br>Sundering the waters of the hemispheres.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am the lord and arbiter of man -- <br>I hold and crush between my finger-tips<br>Wild hordes that drive the desert caravan,<br>Great nations that go down to sea in ships.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In sovereign scorn I tread the races down,<br>As each its puny destiny fulfils,<br>On plain and island, or where huge cliffs frown,<br>Wrapt in the deep thought of the ancient hills.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wild sea searches vainly round the land<br>For those proud fleets my arm has swept away;<br>Vainly the wind along the desert sand<br>Calls the great names of kings who once held sway.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, Nineveh and Babylon the great<br>Are fallen -- like ripe ears at harvest-tide;<br>I set my heel upon their pomp and state,<br>The people's serfdom and the monarch's pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One doom waits all -- art, speech, law, gods, and men,<br>Forests and mountains, stars and shining sun, -- <br>The hand that made them shall unmake again,<br>I curse them and they wither one by one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Waste altars, tombs, dead cities where men trod,<br>Shall roll through space upon the darkened globe,<br>Till I myself be overthrown, and God<br>Cast off creation like an outworn robe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frederick+George+Scott">Frederick George Scott</a><div class=q>
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I reigned. I hung the universe in space,
I capped earth's poles with ice to South and North,
And set the moving tides their bounds and place.

I smoothed the granite mountains with my hand,
My fing..."></div>
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