<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396977" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Woodman And Echo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Close Echo hears the woodman's axe,<br>To double on it, as in glee,<br>With clap of hands, and little lacks<br>Of meaning in her repartee.<br>For all shall fall,<br>As one has done,<br>The tree of me,<br>Of thee the tree;<br>And unto all<br>The fate we wait<br>Reveals the wheels<br>Whereon we run:<br>We tower to flower,<br>We spread the shade,<br>We drop for crop,<br>At length are laid;<br>Are rolled in mould,<br>From chop and lop:<br>And are we thick in woodland tracks,<br>Or tempting of our stature we,<br>The end is one, we do but wax<br>For service over land and sea.<br>So, strike! the like<br>Shall thus of us,<br>My brawny woodman, claim the tax.<br>Nor foe thy blow,<br>Though wood be good,<br>And shriekingly the timber cracks:<br>The ground we crowned<br>Shall speed the seed<br>Of younger into swelling sacks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For use he hews,<br>To make awake<br>The spirit of what stuff we be:<br>Our earth of mirth<br>And tears he clears<br>For braver, let our minds agree;<br>And then will men<br>Within them win<br>An Echo clapping harmony.</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=396977" data-title="Woodman And Echo de George Meredith" data-description="Close Echo hears the woodman's axe, To double on it, as in glee, With clap of hands, and little lacks Of meaning in her repartee. For all shall fall, As one has done, The tree of me, Of thee the tree; And unto all The fate we wait Reveals the whee..."></div> </div> </div>

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