<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396834" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Como</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A rainless darkness drew o'er the lake<br>As we lay in our boat with oars unshipped.<br>It seemed neither cloud nor water awake,<br>And forth of the low black curtain slipped<br>Thunderless lightning. Scoff no more<br>At angels imagined in downward flight<br>For the daughters of earth as fabled of yore:<br>Here was beauty might well invite<br>Dark heavens to gleam with the fire of a sun<br>Resurgent; here the exchanged embrace<br>Worthy of heaven and earth made one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And witness it, ye of the privileged space,<br>Said the flash; and the mountains, as from an abyss<br>For quivering seconds leaped up to attest<br>That given, received, renewed was the kiss;<br>The lips to lips and the breast to breast;<br>All in a glory of ecstasy, swift<br>As an eagle at prey, and pure as the prayer<br>Of an infant bidden joined hands uplift<br>To be guarded through darkness by spirits of air,<br>Ere setting the sails of sleep till day.<br>Slowly the low cloud swung, and far<br>It panted along its mirrored way;<br>Above loose threads one sanctioning star,<br>The wonder of what had been witnessed, sealed,<br>And with me still as in crystal glassed<br>Are the depths alight, the heavens revealed,<br>Where on to the Alps the muteness passed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Meredith">George Meredith</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=396834" data-title="On Como de George Meredith" data-description="A rainless darkness drew o'er the lake As we lay in our boat with oars unshipped. It seemed neither cloud nor water awake, And forth of the low black curtain slipped Thunderless lightning. Scoff no more At angels imagined in downward flight For th..."></div> </div> </div>

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