<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395964" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Adrift: A Brisbane River Reverie</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An amphitheatre of purple hills<br>And emerald slopes where nestling villas gleam,<br>Flooded with golden light that crowns and fills<br>Height, vale, and stream. <br>The clouds float motionless like isles of snow<br>Set in the sapphire of the summer sky,<br>The river, like a ribbon, far below<br>Winds rippling by; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As, like a creeping snake, with curve and sweep<br>The languid current steals past mead and scar,<br>To the dark mangrove fringing on the deep<br>Abreast the bar. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slow drifts the boat past homestead, town, and lea;<br>The waters laugh and sob against the side<br>As down the murmuring river to the sea,<br>Dreaming, I glide. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Past meadowy marshland and gray limestone bluff,<br>Low mangrove fens and waste lantana heights,<br>Long reaches where the tides and winds are rough,<br>And sheltered bights. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now wider spread the waters to the eyes;<br>Now sparser grow the homesteads, scarcely seen,<br>Save where some roof or gaunt gray trunk may rise<br>Against the green. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And salter on the cheek the breezes blow;<br>And in a deeper key the river sings;<br>And from the viewless sea move to and fro<br>Swift snow-like wings. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These are the harbingers from voyaged seas<br>Who knows what seas of thought man yet may sail<br>As science slowly sifts Life’s mysteries—<br>And lifts the veil?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Essex+Evans">George Essex Evans</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=395964" data-title="Adrift: A Brisbane River Reverie de George Essex Evans" data-description="An amphitheatre of purple hills And emerald slopes where nestling villas gleam, Flooded with golden light that crowns and fills Height, vale, and stream. The clouds float motionless like isles of snow Set in the sapphire of the summer sky, The ri..."></div> </div> </div>

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